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the latest from Germany: February 02, 2000
That's Pretty Darn Dreist!
![[Helmut Kohl]](../images/backpages/Kohl2.jpg) This is Helmut Kohl again. Just to refresh your memory: he was Chancellor in Germany for about a hundred years (well, sixteen) and lost his fifth bid for the post in 1998, which made us all laugh like Nelson from the Simpsons (HA, ha). Now he's back in the news, being forced to reveal that he's been financing his political party for decades with illegal campaign contribuitons, bribe money from big companies, and money laundering schemes (all totalling probably a hundred million Marks). Kohl is out there doing his best Nixon impression: acting all shocked that anyone would deny him, the practically deified Chancellor of German Re-unification, the right to have run his government however he pleased. Well, he admits, some formalities of law may have been overlooked, but such trivialites cannot be allowed to stand in the way of a Helmut Kohl. Damn, that's dreist!
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