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To: Alex who wrote (16560)	8/25/1998 5:56:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 116764

<<You know that old saying about even a stopped clock being right twice a day. Still waiting..... >> Alex that is of course if the clock was stopped not crushed..:)

To: Alex who wrote (16560)	8/25/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 116764

Poll hope for Kohl from crisis in Russia By Andrew Gimson in Berlin THE Russian crisis became a dominating factor in the German general election yesterday with the opposition Social Democrats indicating that they would bring back former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to help cope with the turbulence. An SPD strategist admitted in Bild newspaper that any further deterioration of the situation in Russia posed a severe problem for the party in its drive to unseat Chancellor Kohl "as in times of crisis the voters always back the government". <Picture> Gerhard Schr”der campaigning in Duesseldorf yesterday The election team surrounding Gerhard Schr”der, currently on course to topple the chancellor in the general election on Sept 27, have therefore drawn up plans to bring back Mr Schmidt - a respected statesman who led the last SPD government until ousted by Mr Kohl in 1982 - should the international outlook worsen. Mr Schr”der knows he is intensely vulnerable to the charge that he lacks sufficient experience of foreign affairs to guide the ship of state through such stormy waters - an accusation that Mr Kohl is taking every chance to ram home. The SPD was horrified when Mr Schmidt agreed in a recent chat show that it failed to present a "credible alternative" to the present government. The only way to stop the 79-year-old elder statesman from saying things like that, Bonn insiders reason, is to bring him on board. Russia is a particularly unfortunate place from Mr Schr”der's point of view for things to go wrong now, as the German people have long harboured the fear that anarchy and destruction will break in on their ordered world from the East - fears which were only intensified by Russia's crushing victory over the German army in the Second World War. German banks are heavily exposed in Russia, where they risk losing an estimated œ20 billion in loans. telegraph.co.uk