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Brandt, 73, who had been SPD leader since 1964, fell victim to the intense feuding between leftists and moderates that has virtually paralyzed the party. The crowning controversy was his effort to appoint a 30-year-old Greek emigre named Margarita Mathiopoulos as the party's chief spokeswoman. Not only did she not belong to the SPD, she was not even a German citizen. Brandt's successor will be Hans-Jochen Vogel, 61, the party's parliamentary leader...
Personality seemed more important than party last week in two West German state elections, both of which produced surprises. In the Saarland, the country's smallest and poorest state, Oskar Lafontaine, 41, a shrewd and charismatic leftist, led the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to an absolute majority in a state assembly that had been dominated by conservatives for three decades. By contrast, in West Berlin, long a stronghold of the SPD, the ^ winner was a conservative, Christian Democratic Mayor Eberhard Diepgen, 43. Two elements common to both votes were the resurgence of the center-right Free Democrats, thought...
...support holds, replace the center-right government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the 1987 national elections. The conference voted to allow such alliances on the local level but declared the Social Democrats not currently acceptable as national coalition partners. That left open the possibility of future deals with the SPD. In that event, the fundamentalists, mostly Marxist-Leninists, would make the withdrawal of U.S. missiles a key demand...
...strong anti-American undertow." Elected last year as one of the party's 28 Green Deputies in the Bundestag, the gray-haired and soft-spoken 60-year-old was one of the few Greens with appeal to middle-class citizens seeking an alternative to the Social Democratic Party (SPD), West Germany's mainstream left-leaning party. Said Bastian of the internal feuding that encouraged him to resign: "In my entire life I have never experienced such an accumulation of distrust...
Threats to the Greens' unity come not just from within. Leaders of the SPD have already unleashed a strategy of "smothering the Greens" by co-opting many of the Greens' own issues, especially those concerning the environment. Indeed, weaning away moderate Greens is seen by the SPD as essential to a comeback from its 1983 defeat by Helmut Kohl's ruling coalition. Still, the Greens' worst enemies continue to be themselves. "If the Greens become a party of just young protesters," warns Werner Holzer, editor of the left-of-center Frankfurter Rundschau, "they...