Major installations in Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria in particular are hugely important to local workers, businesses KAISERSLAUTERN. World affairs take on a distinctly local perspective from “K-Town,“ as this southwestern German city has been known by at least two generations of U.S. soldiers and their families. Polls might show that about 80 percent of Germans support Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's opposition to a war against Iraq, but last month Kaiserslautern businessmen chipped in to present Brigadier General Erwin F. Lessel III of the U.S. Air Force with a poster bearing the message, “Stop anti-American policies!“ With 40,000 soldiers and their dependents living...