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The Kohl affair
At the beginning it seemed that the treasurer of former Chancellor's Kohl party W. Leisler-Kiep had a problem, because of 1 Million DEM (ap. 0.55 Mil. US-$) that was given to him by a weapon dealer as gift to the party.

At once the most discussed question in Germany was, if the tank-deliveries to Saudi-Arabia should become influenced because of this never-to-see amount.

Beside of the fact that Mr. Kiep is not allowed to talk as accused person in a juristical case, it became clear that beside of the treasurer the general-secratary and the elected leadership always had to be informed about gifts.

All this happened in 1992 and H. Kohl was Chancellor and president of his party, of course. The strategy of the desaster coalition of "flower-socialists" - that rules Germany this election-periode - is clear.

One will make a parliamentary case out of this and especially the knowledge of H. Kohl beside of the account structure of the CDU.

No-one has something against this; so H. Kohl as ordinary Member of Parliament asked the ruling coalition to start as soon as possible. Best before X-Mas.

But there came the "Net!" out of the SPD/Ecologist-side. Because it is the most important thing in Germany at present, the tribunal will come together in spring. - Not logical? Normaly one must expect this but in this case we have ...Elections...

The CDU tries to make the things transparent as soon as possible, as it should be for a democratical party.

c) written by Martin Pochner on November 30th

12.10.: The Economical-Institute "Ifo" demands free opinion hours for shops during the week. Trade-Unions are sharply against.

At the last state-election - 10.10.98 - until spring 2000, in Berlin the Christian-Demotratic-Union of former Chancellor H. Kohl brougth the expected result. In contrary to the horrible defeats in Hessia, Saarland, Thuringia, Northrhine-Westfalia (elections of the representatives of the communes) the SPD did not lose so much percentage.

CDU	40,5%
F.D.P.	2,2%
SPD	22,6%
Ecologists	9,5%
PDS (former SED)	17,4%

Clear to see was the divergent result between East- and Westberlin. Meanwhile the CDU reached 48,6% in the western part, the PDS came up to 40% in the eastern part. In the western part it came to 4,5%. A signal but no trend to become a serious party in former West-Germany. Weakness of SPD is strength of PDS; this will chance.

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