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...Social Democrats are not unhappy about Barzel's victory. An Allensbach Institute opinion poll in July gave Schröder 41% of the vote against 43% for Brandt; Barzel got only 34% v. 50% for the Chancellor. But there are those who believe that Barzel can be sold to the public, much as Richard Nixon...
...Barzel for the chairmanship was Helmut Kohl, 41, up-and-coming prime minister of Rhineland-Palatinate. Although a capable administrator, the reform-minded Kohl presented his case in a nebulous, unconvincing manner. Moreover, some Christian Democrats objected to the fact that Kohl ran for chairman in tandem with Gerhard Schröder, who wanted to be the C.D.U. nominee for Chancellor. Schröder, 61, held cabinet posts under three C.D.U. Chancellors and leads Barzel in popularity polls, but the party dislikes him because of his aloofness...
...real hostilities, however, were in the reviewing stand. There stood a bristling Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and his angry Defense Minister, Gerhard Schroder. In a split that has ended eight months of harmony in the coalition Cabinet, Kiesinger and Schröder, both Christian Democrats, were embattled over projected cuts in West Germany's defense budget...
When he was overruled, Schröder carried his fight from the Defense Ministry, newly housed in a gleaming complex above the Rhine that has inevitably been nicknamed the Pentabonn, into the public arena. He leaked to the press that the cuts would mean a reduction of 60,000 men in the German army. The calculation was his own and not necessarily accurate, since the reductions could be taken in equipment as well as men. Still, the ensuing headlines brought the desired result. Washington, irritated that Kiesinger had not informed it in advance of the budget reduction...
...aide. In fact, he knew, they didn't have that much nerve, and when the time was right, he put them to the test. At a series of caucuses ending last week in the ornate Palais Schaumburg, Erhard's official residence, the Chancellor informed his adversaries that Schröder would stay-though the government was more than willing to improve relations with France, if De Gaulle would only cooperate. Erhard also pointed out that unless Mende got his beloved All-German Affairs Ministry back, the Free Democrat coalition partners wouldn't support the government...