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GERMANY After the Grief As friends, relatives and sympathizers mourned the deaths of 16 people in a school shooting, authorities sought measures to help prevent similar incidents. Interior Minister Otto Schily proposed raising the legal age for gun ownership from 18 to 21. Bavarian premier Edmund Stoiber suggested a ban on violent video and computer games. Youth groups said such proposals were an overreaction and would not have prevented 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser from carrying out his deadly mission at the Gutenberg High School in Erfurt, which investigators said had been planned for at least six months...
...claim. He also sent his barber, who vouched for his hair's authenticity. The court will rule in May, but Schroder's opponents are demanding a hair sample for scientific analysis. At least the press attention is evenhanded: a German newspaper has reported rumors that opposition candidate Edmund Stoiber exaggerates his capacity for heavy drinking by secretly putting water--and on occasion herbal tea--in his beer mug at campaign stops. Suddenly, Al Gore's beard doesn't seem so trivial...
Kirch's failure immediately turned into a political issue between Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his opponent in September's national elections, Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber. Schröder, who heads the Social Democratic party, said the Kirch bankruptcy demonstrated Stoiber's failed leadership because the Bayerische Landesbank, which is 50% owned by the Bavarian government, is Kirch's biggest creditor with $1.7 billion in outstanding loans. "That is not an indication of economic competence but the opposite," Schr Schröder said. Stoiber, who is the candidate of his Christian Social Union and the mainstream Christian Democrats, said...
...Czech laws," Zeman said, "many Sudeten Germans committed treason, a crime which at that time was punishable by death. If they were expelled or transferred, it was more moderate than the death penalty." The reaction from neighboring countries was swift. "Zeman's statement filled me with consternation," responded Edmund Stoiber, the conservative candidate for German Chancellor in the September elections. Stoiber is premier of Bavaria, where many Sudeten Germans settled, and his wife is from a Sudeten family. "The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans cannot be justified under any circumstances." In Austria, Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel said the Czech...
...Europe, the exigencies of an election campaign are re-intensifying the lively tradition of blaming Brussels. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, having quashed a European Commission warning letter over his government's mounting deficit, appears ready to wage his domestic campaign against Brussels - something his opposition rival Edmund Stoiber has been doing for years...