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To: Neocon who wrote (14883)	10/11/1999 1:02:00 PM
From: MNI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

To give the right impression. Even if Russia had won that last game, they would have been in for 'indirect qualifying', that is play-offs, (because Portugal won one game more than Russia, and is therefore the best among all the sides who ended up the second of their respective qualifying groups). Once in the play-offs, prospects would have been bleak for Russia nonetheless: with England, Scotland, Turkey, Ireland, Denmark - this is a collection of European top-teams (Germany only by good luck evaded that torture with a lucky nil:nil result against Turkey on Sunday. The players and the coach not only seemed exhausted - they said clearly they FEARED the playoffs ...). Problem for the Euro-soccer-cup is there are too many European countryies now - and also, that double host Belgium+Netherlands BOTH have their sides in, needless of qualification... BTW, a pipe is nothing but a FIFO queue, (ggg). Berlin elections happened like predicted, with SPD being a little stronger than predicted, and thereby, than PDS. The forming of the government will take time however. The nice thing is no right-winger party was strong enough to enter state parliament. For federal politics, there is now a phase of electoral quiet ahead, in which both parties can reshape themselves. In February there is Schleswig-Holstein, later in the year North-Rhine-Westphalia. If both SPD governments lose out, that should be an end to Schroeder's government. But this is still improbable. Also, CDU top politician W.Schaeuble aired he had no interest to take over mid-term. Berlin is still a politically divided town: (party, total, West, East; total of 1995) CDU: 40.8 , 48.9, 26.3; 27.4 (all-time high in Berlin) SPD: 22.4, ; 23.6 (all-time low in Berlin) PDS: 17.7, 4.4, 40.2; 14.6 (10 years' high in Berlin) Greens: 9.9, 11, 8; 13.2 liberals: 2.2; 2.5 (staying out of Parliament) Republikaner: 2.7 (biggest right-wingers, staying out of Parliament) While 'mainstream opposition to federal government' means CDU in West Berlin, the same label seems to hold true for PDS in East-Berlin. Pollsters say, however, that in this election, state politics was more important than federal politics (different from the last few Eastern German state elections). The PDS is especially proud of doubling their result in West-Berlin during the last four years. The SPD is much weaker in the East than in the West, but I couldn't find the numbers. The total ballot was a little higher than during the last few weeks. Political topic of the week is LaFontaines book against Schroeder. The book "my heart beats left" might become a decade bestseller. After being isolated in his party with a few exceptions, and after embarassingly being invited to join PDS, Lafontaine performed very well yesterday night in a talkshow round with three other former secretary generals (E.Bahr, SPD, H. Geissler, CDU, P. Glotz, SPD). Have a nice week, regards MNI.