ON THE WORLD SCENE - Gene H Hogberg - July 11, 1979

Gene H Hogberg

STRAUSS "GOES FOR BROKE": It's now official. Franz-Josef Strauss will go up against Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next year's West German General Election, a campaign which London's Daily Telegraph predicts will be a "titanic duel." The selection of Strauss as their chancellor candidate by the opposition Christian Democratic Union/Christian Socialist Union came after a tense seven-hour long inter-party caucus on Monday July 3. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library