Exit polls suggest that a major reason for the much worse than expected performance of the SPD (22%) in its areaof dominance during the pre-World War II Weimar Republic is that it proposed a much slower process of reunification while the CDU-led Alliance and the Free Democrats (with 53% of the vote) agreed with Kohl on a rapid process of reunification.
On Monday night, PA reported that about 15 students -- members of the School of Oriental and African Studies' branch of Stop the War Coalition -- occupied the reception areaof a BBC building in central London and demanded to speak to a senior member of the corporation.