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To: MNI who wrote (15806)	1/24/2000 4:40:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Sunday January 23 4:41 PM ET Kohl Scandal Reaches France By BURT HERMAN Associated Press Writer BERLIN (AP) - The web of secret money transfers trapping Germany's conservatives in a financing scandal widened Sunday with allegations that the French government of Francois Mitterrand funneled millions of dollars to support former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's 1994 re-election. [...] dailynews.yahoo.com Actually, this whole bribe scam was aimed at France from day one --or, more accurately, at the Franco-German relationship.... Just as I was hinting at in my post #15668: Message 12445864 Germany's neo-Junkers can't go for a head-to-head with France --such an outspoken animosity would further damage the euro and the EU's diplomatic clout. Hence, the current slantwise blow to the very symbol of the Franco-German frienship. For that matter, I heard this morning that German tabloids have picked out the famous picture showing Kohl hand in hand with Mitterrand as their "screamers".... So, it sounds like what you dismissively took for an irrelevant background noise is being pumped up to a deafening level! Looks like Germans are remixing what was once a melodious Franco-German waltz into some high-pitched techno track... Now the French are, as Grace Jones will say, Slave to the Rhythm.