European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 27. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 winning Kohl party broods Over lost votes Bonn up Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Campaign manager made no secret of hit disgust with the outcome of sunday s election in which germans re turned their Center right coalition government to Power with a solid 3 million vote majority. You can t win when your own strikers Are kicking inc Ball into your own goal Heiner Geissler using a soccer image confessed to critical reporters after the results came in sunday night. Grissler. Who is also the Secretary general of Kohl s Christian democratic Union was lamenting a foreign policy Row within the Kohl coalition that had the effector driving an estimated 800,000 Christian democratic voters into the Camp of the Allied Liberal free democrats. Both Gassier and the reporters who interviewed him thought it perfectly natural to discuss the party s dip in voting strength from 4g.g percent in 1983 to 44.3 percent sunday As Hough the sky were falling. But Kohl s party remained the country s strongest far ahead of the labor backed opposition social democrats who also slipped from 38.2 percent four years ago 10 37 percent this Lime. The morose inclination to Brood Over the negative Side of any development has become a much discussed quirk of Germany s political culture. And Kohl s party had. After All made its worst showing at the polls since 1949. Only Norbert Bluem Kohl s Christian democratic labor minister had the temerity to say out loud what an uninitiated outsider might have thought was obvious we won the election so what was this outcome that was being so earnestly discussed by other Christian democrats in terms of a stunning Rebuff the governing coalition of Christian democrats and Liberal free democrats whipped the combined opposition by 53.4 percent of the vote to 4s.3 percent a spread of More than eight percentage Points. True the same coalition had won with 55.8 percent in 1983, but sunday s result reflecting the will of More than 38 million of Germany s 45 million voters gives Kohl an impregnable voting majority of around 40 bundestag seats for his pro nato and business oriented policies Over the next tour Yean. Hardly Ever has an american president had it this Good the real loser of the election the social democratic party of former Chancellor Willy Brandt remain badly divided by an internal right left ideological split Over Security and defense policy. And this already Points toward another bruising Battle Over who should Lead the party from now on the social democrats face a dilemma because the anti nato anti nuclear greens boosted their Vole from 5.6 percent when they cracked into parliament for the first Lime four years ago to 8.3 percent sunday and it is no secret that the Green reinforcements overwhelmingly Young vote were defectors fro Brandt s ranks an estimated 650,000 of them. Indeed the greens and social democrats found they had too Little in common to plan a coalition an had even campaigned against each other. Meanwhile in  Walldorf near Frankfurt eight people wearing blocking masks charged into a voting Center sunday and tossed a fire bomb into ballot Box destroying about 1,000 ballots police said. Hesse stale election officials announced later that new balloting in the Moe Felden Walldorf area would beheld feb. The incident will delay final official results of Sun Day s National election but the number of votes involved was too Small to have an effect on the outcome election officials said. Police reported the assault occurred about an hour before the polls were to close at 6 . In this town 12 Miles South of Frankfurt. Election officials took the burning ballot Box outside and Here was no damage to the building and no one was injured police said. The vandals escaped and no group or individual claimed responsibility for the attack. A police spokesman said it was possible the attack ers were opposed to a third runway at the nearby Frankfurt Airport that opened last year. Baker approves of Dollar s order a decline Washington 1 Treasury Secretary James Baker says the dollars orderly decline is Good for the econ omy particularly in terms of the nation s massive Trade deficit. See conversion rates on Page 27. Baker said sunday he is pleased by the drop in the Dollar relative to other major currencies and while asserting it hns not been in a free fall he refused to say where it should Slop. The nation s Trade deficit a major concern for the administration will Benefit by inc Dollar s reasonable and orderly decline Oer the past is months he said. When the Dollar s value drops for eign goods become More expensive for . Consumer As demonstrated by the Price of japanese can. At the same Lime american goods become loss expensive on foreign markets. While saying he was not talking Down the Dollar Baker also said he believes Japan and Germany the two trading partners whose currencies have surged against the Dollar could do More to realign the global economic balance to lift some of the Burden from the american Economy. He also said there May also be Mote the United Stales can do including coming to grips with budget deficits. The new York Tim i reported Sun Day that negotiations arc under Way be tween the United slates and ils four largest economic allies the group of Fivi to discuss the Dollar and the effect their economic policies have onit. The times tiling unidentified euro Pean and japanese diplomatic sources said a Likely time for such a meeting is feb. 7. And the Likely location is  noted that any one of he live coun tries the United slates. Japan. Ger Many Britain and France could pre vent such a meeting. Treasury spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler after consulting Baker on the report was quoted by the times As say ing or. Baker does not comment on is meetings one Way or  Baker appearing on Abc s meet inc press said an earlier report i sunday s new York times was not entirely a Eurale and Borders on being dirt Spon sible in us implication about  gnats fora proper level for inc Dollar. The times report filing an Anonymous olt irial. Said that Baker in a meeting monthly Sauld Tell president Keagan thai the Matvei exiled Lail of in Dollar has been Good for the Economy and that Hakr is not concerned by last week s ild trading on Wall Street. Questioned Abuwi inc Sharp drop of the Dollar against inc japanese yen and the German Mark. Baker said. "1haven t seen the Dollar in a free  he characterized the drop of the past week As a period of  Bui he said you can t talk about what you might or might not do be cause currency markets draw Unwar ranted inferences from official com ments. Refusing to say what Levels might prompt  action to Shore up the Dollar. Baker said . Officials know there can be trouble if the Dollar Falls Loo far too fast. Such a plunge he said could rekindle inflation and increase the Cost of i Meres payments on the s2 trillion National debt much of which is owed 10overseas interests. But he noted thai inflation has remained Low and the shift in the Dollar value had absolutely no discernible effect on debt service costs