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Article: Nobody does it better than Helmut Kohl. (German chancellor's political success leads to his fourth term) (Column)

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November 21, 1994
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Ronald Reagan had to stand down after two sweeping election victories. Margaret Thatcher was deposed after three. Democracies are meant to be that way. Yet German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who came from behind to win a plurality in Germany's October federal elections, has pulled out his fourth victory in a row.

Kohl first swept to parliamentary power in 1982 and won again in 1986 and 1990. Even if he fails to form a government because of the vagaries of the German electoral system, he has added another astonishing record to his amazing achievements during the last 12 years. No one in the modern political history of any major Western democracy has "four-peated" in ...

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