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  • A soured election in Germany

    09/21/2002 1:32:15 PM PDT · by tomball · 8 replies · 226+ views
    UPI ^ | Published 9/21/2002 11:54 AM | Martin Walker
    html> FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Germany goes to the polls Sunday for what looks to be the closest election in 50 years and the most bitter one in its impact on the country's longstanding alliance with the United States.The incumbent Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's blunt refusal to join any U.S.-led attack on Iraq, even with a United Nations mandate, soured relations that have now touched a new low over a German minister's reported claim that President George W. Bush was using foreign crises to detract attention from domestic troubles -- just like Adolf Hitler.Schroeder wrote a soothing and regretful...