Schmidt is out, Kohl is in, and an ambiguous new era beckons
Finally, the weeks of confusion and political conniving had come to an end. Bored though they were by a debate that had droned on for more than five hours, members of West Germany's parliament watched closely as Bundestag President Richard Stücklen rose to make a curt announcement: the opposition motion of no confidence in the minority government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had carried by a vote of 256 to 235, with four abstentions. While colleagues began congratulating Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl,...
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