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...clear what might constitute neutrality in a Europe from which hostile blocs have vanished. For the first time in modern history every country in Western Europe is led by a democratic government and every state in Central Europe is on the road to it. As Social Democratic Party (SPD) planner Egon Bahr has asked, Who is there to be neutral against...
That question will demand an answer in December if Kohl loses the West German election to the SPD. Some Social Democrats see little utility in NATO and believe that most of the voters share their view. The most likely SPD candidate for Chancellor, Saarland governor Oskar Lafontaine, says flatly, "Kohl is wrong if he thinks Germany can stay in NATO." Lafontaine favors a European defense system in a "United States of Europe." That kind of talk shocks Washington, and the Bush Administration has decided to put its weight behind Kohl and his commitment to the Atlantic Alliance. Even in Washington...
...playing a tragic role, but a necessary one," said Stefan Finger, campaign director of East Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), which is the main adversary of Modrow's Communist Party, now renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism. Although the SPD is favored to win East Germany's first free elections, its leaders praise Modrow. Said Finger: "We believe in this man's integrity...
...most other Germans, East and West. A poll taken by a Leipzig sociological institute last month indicated that Modrow's once omnipotent party was favored by only 12% of the electorate, in contrast to a commanding 53% for the SPD, which is closely allied with West Germany's opposition SPD. But in the same poll, 52% named Modrow as the country's most trusted political figure, a startling result in a country fed up with Communists. By contrast, Ibrahim Bohme, the SPD leader and Modrow's probable successor as Prime Minister, scored only 15%. In West Germany another popularity ranking...
...Kohl got the better of it. His speech was interrupted with applause by supporters and opponents, and his party's main rival, the Social Democratic Party, at first had no choice but to endorse the speech. Later in the week, though, when the Bundestag formally approved the plan, the SPD began feeling its politics again and abstained from the voting. Kohl also seized the high ground from the far-right Republican Party, which has issued absurd calls for complete German reunification to 1937's borders, which now include parts of Poland. Kohl reassured Germans across much of the political spectrum...