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Article: Bonn's Social Democrats Edge Toward the Center
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- The Washington Post
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- March 20, 1988
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West Germany's Social Democratic Party, a year after its second
straight national election defeat left it divided internally and
uncertain about its future direction, has pulled itself together and
edged toward the political center in hope of regaining power in the
early 1990s.
Party chairman Hans-Jochen Vogel, who begins a five-day visit to
Washington on Monday, has enforced discipline in the left-of-center
party by forcing its factions to curb their squabbling and present a
united front to the public.
Under Vogel's tutelage, the party also has set aside thoughts of
seeking a coalition with the pacifist-environmentalist Greens. The
Social Democrats have concluded that the Greens are too ...