Word: vogel
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...December. No such U.S. initiative is likely, though, until after the March 6 elections in West Germany. Any softening of the American stance before then, U.S. officials believe, would undercut Chancellor Helmut Kohl, a firm supporter of the new NATO deployment, in his race against Social Democrat Hans-Jochen Vogel...
...packed press conference in Bonn, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 57, Kohl's Social Democrat opponent, vowed that "there will be no automatic deployment" of the controversial missiles if he wins the March 6 election. He said that if the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not make greater efforts to produce an agreement in Geneva, it would have a significant impact on his attitude toward deployment...
...West Germany entered the final, decisive weeks before its March 6 national elections, each of those disparate rallies had its own significance. At stake was control of the 519-seat Bundestag, a struggle dominated by the rivalry between Kohl's Christian Democrats and Vogel's Social Democrats. But for the first time, a powerful environmental and antinuclear movement, headed by the Greens, is threatening to take over the balance of electoral power in West Germany. That far from remote possibility would challenge the concept of nuclear deterrence within the NATO alliance, and would undermine a strategy that...
What both major parties fear specifically is that the Greens might oust the Free Democratic Party as the pivotal third force in the Bundestag. That will not matter if either Kohl's Christian Democratic/Christian Social Union alliance or Vogel's Social Democrats win a majority. But it becomes a critical issue if neither party has enough strength to form a government on its own. The conservatives are not likely, under any circumstances, to make common cause with the Greens. The Greens have signaled that they could support a Social Democratic minority government on some issues, but in return...
Since its phase-in process began in 1979, the Core has, in the words of Associate Dean Sidney Verba, released some long pent-up energies in the Harvard community. The Core has attracted many of Harvard's most senior and renowned professors, from Stanley Hoffmann, Ezra Vogel, Emily Vermeule, and Bernard Bailyn to Nobel Prize-winning scientists back to undergraduate and especially freshman teaching. In addition, while many of the Core courses are simply General Education re-treads, often lacking even the discreteness of a change in name, there has been new Faculty collaboration producing what has been called...