Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger one morning last week tapped a brass bell with a wooden gavel, thus convened the first Cabinet meeting of West Germany's new black-and-red coalition government. For the next six hours, the ten Ministers from Kiesinger's Christian Democratic Union and the nine from the Social Democratic Party got their initial taste of working with longtime political foes. The main task: formulating a policy statement of government objectives, which Kiesinger will present this week to the Bundestag. Some of the points: warmer relations with Paris, fiscal reform, budget cuts.
The Cabinet...
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