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No wonder Mr Kohl is stomping the campaign trail alongside Mr Wulff with near-desperate energy.
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The 77-year-old Kohl has said he would not sell the team to anyone looking to move out of Milwaukee, but Kohl no longer has to worry about counting votes.
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Mr Kohl wants no part of that.
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After all, it was thanks in no small measure to Kohl's "leadership" on G-7 ties -- and the Bush Administration's obsequious deference to it -- that Soviet communism was perpetuated for years beyond when it would otherwise have become economically non-viable.
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As the general election campaign gets going, Mr Kohl's government will no doubt try to expose the Social Democrats' divisions, but it has a tandem strategy too.
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Once he was the Social Democrats' top man: their youngest-ever leader and candidate for chancellor, no less, in 1994, when he lost to Helmut Kohl.
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The battle cuts across party lines: the governing mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, for example, is no fan of the memorial, although he is a Christian Democrat like Mr Kohl.
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It can do him no harm just now to cut a figure of seemingly Olympian calm as the embattled Mr Kohl huffs and puffs.
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But there is no sign of a major political leader of the stature of Adenauer, or even Helmut Kohl, to give the Germans a sense of purpose.
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And if the air feels a little fresher at Kohl's, that's because newer buildings feature fresh-air ventilation and no smoking within 25 feet of the entrance.
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How could the German Intelligence Service have told Chancellor Kohl on 24 November 1988 that "until the summer of 1988, the BND had no knowledge of the participation of German companies neither from its own nor from foreign intelligence sources, " when it had been supplied with precisely such information since at least January 1986 and especially since January 1988?
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