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Significantly, Kohl has agreed to appoint Friedrich Zimmermann, 57, his Interior Minister. Zimmermann is a conservative long known for his anti-immigration and anti environmentalist views. His name was put forward for the job by Franz Josef Strauss, the abrasive head of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to the C.D.U.* The Interior Minister's appointment has already raised protests from a wide range of left-wing groups, including the Greens, the growing third force in West German politics, who recently won 8% of the vote in local elections in the industrial state of Hesse. A loose...
...thoughtful enough to provide identifying labels for those viewers who may be getting their diploma through a matchbook correspondence course: Isadora Duncan is described as "the controversial dancer," Balzac and Proust, in no uncertain terms, as "French novelists," and Thus Spake Zarathustra as "the famous composition by Richard Strauss...
Harvard's numbers, by contrast, portrayed a well-balanced attack; Co-Captains Rich Guerra and Dave Fasi notched four and three goals, respectively, and Mike Rogers, Robby Strauss and John David tallied three times, too. The Crimson hole-setters did their job of setting up teammates for scores, as David Chao picked up five assists and Fasi four...
Brian Grabon has been strong in goal of late, and several subs or rotating starters in the early games have also stared-offense minded Courtney Roberts, and a trio of freshmen, Mike Rogers, David Chao and Robby Strauss...
Kohl, on the other hand, is anxious to keep Genscher and the F.D.P. as a counterweight to Strauss, who was defeated handily in the 1980 elections by Schmidt. Kohl knows that governing with the formidable Bavarian at his elbow would be like a dachshund's trying to control a rogue elephant. In addition, Kohl feels that the Christian Democrats need to forge a strong alliance with the F.D.P. if they hope to remain in power for more than one term. Kohl is reported to believe that the conservatives in West Germany today do not hold a "natural" majority, since...