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- <text id=90TT2183>
- <title>
- Aug. 20, 1990: World Notes:The Germanys
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 20, 1990 Showdown
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 55
- World Notes
- THE GERMANYS
- Setting Back The Clock
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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