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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...
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...
...visibility ploys to head off NATO decisions, but none were as successful as the way Andropov has played his hand these past two months?first, with his televised speech in December, then with tantalizing but carefully hedged hints of additional concessions to visiting West German Opposition Leader Hans-Jochen Vogel earlier this month...
...search for an interim solution has been enthusiastically embraced by the Social Democrats, though the party officially favors deployment if talks break down. Says Hans-Jochen Vogel, the party's leader and candidate for Chancellor: "There has hardly ever been a negotiation in which the final result was identical to the opening position of one of the parties." He adds: "Kohl wants a mandate for deployment. I am fighting to avoid deployment." At a party convention last week, Vogel drew the loudest cheers when he called for a "constructive" U.S. reply to Soviet overtures for reciprocal arms reductions. Still...
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Kohl's Foreign Minister and the leader of the Free Democrats, in campaigning against Vogel declared that Bonn is not contemplating any change in the 1983 deployment date. But Genscher has also waffled on the deployment question. Addressing party officials, he went so far as to argue that an interim agreement was implicit in the initial "double-track" strategy adopted by NATO in 1979. Genscher said that the alliance could indeed stretch out deployment while talks continued...