WHERE Is WEST GERMANY Headed? - Gene H Hogberg - December 1980

Gene H Hogberg

Helmut Schmidt, considered by many to be a real leader in the Western world, has won re-election in West Germany. But major problems loom on the horizon during his new term of office. Unwilling to take political chances in an increasingly uncertain world, West German voters, on Sunday, October 5, returned Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to a new four-year term of office. The electoral challenge of Franz Josef Strauss, candidate of the conservative opposition parties, was decisively turned back. The elections in the Federal Republic deserved far more attention in the world press than they received. Unfortunately they were submerged under media overkill coverage devoted to the election campaign in the United States. Nevertheless, the consequences of Mr. Schmidt's victory should prove to be as significant for the Western world in the early 1980s as the outcome of the American election. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library