University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 22, 1991
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German voters may put Kohl out of power
The Associated Press
BERLIN — Voters knocked Chancellor Helmut Kohl's party out of power in his home state yesterday, according to early election projections. He also gave a serious blow to the German leader's prestige.
The election in Rinkeland-Palatinate state in southwestern Germany was the first major vote since Kohl's center-right coalition won national elections in December, and it was seen as a referendum on the embattled chancellor's policies on German unification.
Kohl's Christian Democrats could lose their majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the national parliament, as a result of the election.
Kohl's Christian Democrates could lose their majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the national parliament, as a result of the election.
But his coalition would maintain its majority in the more powerful lower house, which approves less than 15% of the votes.
Kohl has been criticized for having miscalculated the enormity of the economic problems in former East Germany. That error has led to lower taxes in the west and worker unrest in the east.
A throng of Social Democrats in Mainz, the state capital on the Rhine River, erupted in cheers when the national ARD and ZDF television networks flashed their projections as soon as polling places closed.
The Christian Democrats have held power in the state since the first state elections after World War II.
The projections showed the Social Democrats with 45 percent and Kohl's Christian Democrats with 38.6 percent. That would give the Social Democrats of 47 of the 101 seats in the state legislature, and the Christian Democrats 40 seats.
Kohl's coalition partners, the Free Democrats, were projected to win 6.8 percent of the vote and seven seats. The leftist Greens were projected at 6.7 percent and seven seats.
The television projections were based on surveys of 6,500 people after they voted. No margin of error was given, but the projections traditionally have been quite reliable.
The Greens have proposed a coalition government with the Social Democrats, and if the television projections are confirmed, the two parties would hold 54 of the chamber's 101 seats.
That would allow them to claim the state's four seats in the Bundesrat, and Kohl's party would lose its majority of 35. State governments appoint the members of the 65-seat Bundesrat.
Kohl's Christian Democrats would only have 31 seats. The Social Democrats would have 37, giving them a majority and new political authority on the national legislation affecting the course of unification.
The Mac Challenge
Philip Meiring/KANSAN
Kay Walcher, Scott City junior and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority member, blocks a tip during the finals of the Mac Challenge II Volleyball Tournament in front of Allen Field House. The Alpha Gamma Delta team received a Macintosh Classic computer for defeating the Kappa Alpha Theta team in the finals. Yesterday's tournament was sponsored by KU Bookstores and Apple Macintosh. Proceeds will go to the women's volleyball team.
German authorities to indict patrolmen
The Associated Press
BERLIN — Authorities are preparing indictments against former East German soldiers who shot and killed two young men as they were trying to climb over the Berlin Wall to free Germany's newspaper reported yesterday.
The Berliner Morgentorp said that authorities had the names of both victims and the soldiers involved in the attack. In 1986 and the other, in December, 1984
"An indictment against the former border soldiers is to be issued shortly," the Morgengpost said, citing Berlin justice authorities.
Authorities had intended first to try
former Communist leader Erich Honecker and his associates for issuing the shoot-to-kill orders.
However, the Soviet Union's decision to take Honecker to Moscow forced authorities to revise their plans. Moscow has made it clear that it has no intention of sending the 78-man Honecker back to Germany to stand trial.
According to the Morgenpost, the November 1986 shooting was particularly cold-blooded.
The border soldiers shot and wounded 25-year-old Michael Bittern as he was trying to climb over the wall, a part of the city, the newspaper said.
United States, Vietnam to establish new office
The Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand — The United States and Vietnam have agreed to put a U.S. office in Hanoi to speed the search for U.S. soldiers still missing after the attack on countries said in a joint statement.
A joint statement said the two sides agreed to establish a temporary office in Hanoi. The statement, dated Saturday, was carried out by the embassy and made available by a Western embassy in Bangkok yesterday.
The move could help pave the way for formal U.S. recognition of the Communist government in Hanoi.
The agreement came during a visit to the Vietnamese capital by special presidential envoy Gen. John W. Vessey, who met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach last week.
It said the office would concentrate on improving joint field investigations, planning for joint training exercises, and conducting allied sightings of U.S. citizens.
The issue of U.S. citizens missing in action has cast a shadow over U.S.-Vietnamese relations since the close of the Vietnam war. Nearly 1,700 U.S. citizens are still listed as missing.
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