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Schroeder Takes Charge as Germany’s Chancellor After Kohl
Gerhard Schroeder became Germany’s seventh postwar chancellor in Bonn, succeeding Helmut Kohl. The Social Democratic government vows to revive jobs, grant greater citizenship to foreigners, and end nuclear power while guiding Berlin’s move and adoption of the euro. Kohl expresses a hopeful, bittersweet farewell as transitions begin.
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