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...folksy, conservative politician with an easygoing, leisurely work style. But last week, West Germany's newly chosen Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 52, was behaving like a man without a moment to lose. Within three hours of taking over the glass-and-steel Bonn Chancellery from Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, the Christian Democratic leader had sworn in a new 17-member Cabinet, chaired his first Cabinet meeting, held a press conference and jetted off to Paris for a hastily arranged get-acquainted dinner with his most important Western European partner, French President François Mitterrand. Kohl's Foreign Minister...
...main question for Kohl is whether or not he will be allowed to lead that government for long. After ending 13 years of Social Democratic coalition rule on Oct. 1 by toppling Schmidt in a Bundestag no-confidence vote, Kohl and his center-right coalition of the Christian Democrat/Christian Social Union (C.D.U./C.S.U.) and the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) have all but promised to hold elections by March 6 that could toss the newcomers out of office...
From the moment he was sworn in as Chancellor, Kohl tried to assure West Germans that he would continue the foreign policies of Schmidt's government, including support for the installation of U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles in the country. "The Americans are our most important partners and allies," he told the press conference, but then quickly added that the transatlantic relationship means "friendship and partnership, not dependency." Kohl gave a critical edge to that remark by referring to the gas pipeline from the Soviet Union that a consortium of Western European nations is financing and building despite...
Mass Hall officials say Steiner opposed unionization because "he really didn't believe it was the best thing for Harvard employees," in the words of Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs. But the District 65 official says Steiner "never was real specific" about why the union would be detrimental to workers' interests...
...major foreign policy issues, however, the difference between Kohl and Schmidt, at least in the short term, is more likely to be one of tone rather than substance - what a Kohl aide has called "continuity with new accents." The new Chancellor will echo Schmidt's firm stand in support of the 1983 installation of intermediate-range cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe, although he may face more vociferous opposition than his predecessor did from West Germany's burgeoning anti-nuclear movement. Also, Kohl is unlike ly to change West Germany's position on the building...