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- WORLD, Page 55World NotesTHE GERMANYSSetting Back The Clock
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- Chancellor Helmut Kohl suffered a rare setback on the road
- to unity last week when he had to abandon plans to advance the
- first all-German elections from Dec. 2 to Oct. 14. Opponents
- charged that Kohl hoped that facing voters sooner rather than
- later would protect his Christian Democrats from the
- disillusion of the electorate as the costs of unification
- swell.
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- Moving the date, complained Oskar Lafontaine, the Social
- Democratic opposition's candidate for Chancellor, was a
- "deceptive maneuver." His party made it clear that it would
- block the two-thirds vote necessary to speed up elections. At
- that, the government dropped the plan. Although the Social
- Democrats support an early date for unification, they want
- balloting to come later.
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