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...Western alliance will feel the loss of a statesman as experienced as Schmidt. Said former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey last week: "Helmut Schmidt is the only Western leader at the moment who has experience, a policy and imagination. He will leave a very serious gap." Still, Schmidt's departure should not weaken the bonds between London and Bonn. Though Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher enjoyed good personal relations, Britain's Conservative Party is ideologically closer to West Germany's Christian Democrats. The opposite will be true for France. During his summer holidays...
...Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor, West Germans may notice be shift in political substance soon enough, but the change in style will be immediate. Towering (6 ft. 4 in.), bespectacled and multijowled, Kohl has a folksy manner that contrasts sharply with the coolly autocratic air of the donnish Schmidt. Unlike the Chancellor, who is a first-rate orator in both German and English, Kohl has an unfortunate tendency, as one journalist put it, to use "ten sentences when one will do." And if Schmidt is ill at ease among crowds, Kohl likes nothing better than to press...
...would be Chancellor "before too long." For a time, it appeared that he might. He became the youngest minister-president (governor) of his state in 1969 and, four years later, the youngest national chairman of the C.D.U. But he missed becoming West Germany's youngest Chancellor when Schmidt's coalition narrowly triumphed in the 1976 federal elections...
...C.D.U./C.S.U. candidate for Chancellor in the 1980 federal elections. Supporters argue that Kohl's apparent lack of resolve in facing down the wily Bavarian is just a reflection of his desire to avoid harmful political confrontation. He has even been known to come to the aid of Schmidt when the Chancellor was under attack in the Bundestag from leftists in his own party. seem its drawbacks, Kohl's middle-of-the-road politicking does seem to go down well with the German electorate. Since he took the C.D.U. helm, party membership has more than doubled...
Even if Kohl accedes to Schmidt's mantle and becomes an international statesman and media superstar, the chances are good that he will remain a provincial at heart. Kohl still prefers his cluttered office in Mainz to the C.D.U. 's marble music, in the German capital. A devotee of jazz and classical music, the master of a world-class wine cellar in his home outside Ludwigshafen, he also admits a fondness for television westerns and pizza. Recalling their eleven-year courtship, his wife Hannelore says, "I got three to four letters a week from him, amounting to over...