Word: vogel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure of Helmut Kohl, 52. Less than two hours after last Sunday's polling ended, computer projections showed Kohl's Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union, gaining an estimated 49.3% of the popular vote. Kohl's Social Democratic rival, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 57, ran second with 38.2%. The environmentalist, antinuclear Green Party polled around 5%, possibly gaining a disruptive foothold in the Bundestag. The small Free Democratic Party, Kohl's old coalition partner, defied predictions of its demise and bounced back with...
...palpable sense of relief, if only because Kohl unequivocally supports NATO's 1979 decision to install U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles at the end of this year unless there is a breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations in Geneva. A victory by the Social Democrats under Vogel, it had been feared, might have brought into government in Bonn the currents of pacifism now churning in West German society...
Under pressure from the left wing of his own party, Vogel had been expected to refuse or delay indefinitely the deployment of the missiles, thereby giving Moscow an easy victory in the political struggle over the defense of Western Europe. Throughout the campaign, Vogel had won roars of approval when he said, "Kohl has explained that he wants a mandate to move forward with the stationing of missiles. I am asking for the mandate to do everything possible in the name of Germany to make the stationing of missiles superfluous." Vogel and other Social Democratic campaigners made clear that "everything...
...Kohl had stressed pocketbook issues, warning voters that the country had been living beyond its means for too long. Industrial growth may reach no more than one-quarter of 1% in 1983. The combined federal, state and municipal government budget deficit for 1983 is projected to exceed $31 billion. Vogel had promised to cancel all the austerity measures that Kohl had taken during his five months as Chancellor prior to the election. Kohl's belt-tightening gospel was undoubtedly unpopular, but Vogel's vow to return to freer spending of dwindling government resources apparently turned...
...nation's declining economic fortunes. Branded as "traitors," by the SPD, the Free Democrats began a downward slide in public esteem, and for a while it seemed that they might not win the 5% of the vote necessary to hold seats in the Bundestag. If neither Kohl nor Vogel had won an absolute majority last Sunday, West Germans might have then been faced with a parliament in which the balance of power was held by the antinuclear, pacifist Greens. The latter would not support Kohl, and they had earlier declared that they would back Vogel only if he agreed...