Word: schroeders
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BONN: Germany's swing to the left has put smooth-talking centrist Gerhard Schroeder in power, but it may also make life difficult for the new chancellor. Schroeder was finalizing plans Monday for a coalition with the Greens, whose 47 seats would give him a 21-seat majority. "Here's a guy who got elected as representing 'the new center,' but both his Green coalition partners and the left wing of his own Social Democratic Party aren't enthusiastic about his economic plans," says TIME correspondent James Graff. "It's not surprising that he's being cagey about policy specifics...
...greatest triumph; it may also have been his undoing. The voters of the former East Germany, embittered by rampant unemployment and economic stagnation, appear to have tipped the balance in the landmark election Sunday that ousted a sitting chancellor for the first time in modern German history. Gerhard Schroeder, a 56-year-old Social Democrat who had retooled his party along the centrist "Third Way" lines championed by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, soundly defeated Kohl in the hard-fought election. But he won't find it easy to make good on promises to give East Germans a new deal...
...Germany's postwar era. "Kohl's themes were derived from World War II and the Cold War," says TIME correspondent James Graff. "He shepherded the country through the complex process of reunification, and worked to protect Germany from its worst impulses by centering it in a strong European Union." Schroeder, by contrast, is a German baby-boomer, concerned less with the past and the wider European perspective than with the domestic economy. "This election marks a new generation assuming the leadership of Germany, one less shadowed by the legacy of the war," says Graff. "Enough of history, German voters seemed...
Rushing: Har--Menick 13-42, Linden 9-23, Patterson 3-15, Nwokocha 3-6, Belczyk 2-19, Wilford 2-10; Col--Hayes 22-65, Reese 11-78, Bivens 4-14, Mack 4-17, Schroeder 3-10, Childress 2-20, Thompson 1-9, Barsoumian...
...there is still Prop. 227, the anti-bilingual education initiative, which G.O.P. strategists fear could spoil all their hard work. At the state party's semiannual convention last September, Schroeder tried frantically to keep delegates from endorsing it but was overruled by the rank and file. Some dismiss the chairman's fears that the campaign against bilingual education will spawn a Prop. 187-style backlash. They point to polls showing that a majority of Latinos actually support the initiative. But Latino political analysts warn that one thing could still turn their community against the measure: a close association with...