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Kohl rejects
accusations
of wrongdoing
in refinery deal
by Burt Herman
Associated Press
Berlin — In one of his strongest de
fenses so far, embattled former Chan
cellor Helmut Kohl has rejected accu
sations that money changed hands under
the table in a privatization deal for a for
mer East German refinery.
The deal that let a French oil con
cern buy the Leuna refinery was in Ger
many’s best interests, and money was
never discussed between Kohl and then
French President Francois Mitterrand,
Kohl said in an interview in Wfelt am Son
ntag newspaper on Sunday.
Also Sunday, a key former financial
adviser to Kohl’s Christian Democratic
party said the party’s system of secret
money stretched back to 1971 — pre
dating Kohl’s first term as chancellor and
much earlier than previously reported.
The adviser, Horst Weyrauch, said
dal since his admission last month that
he accepted up to $1 million in off-the
books donations for the party.
Last weekend, a report by German
and French television claimed Mitter
rand arranged.for payment of $15 mil
lion to the Christian Democrats in 1992
to help his friend Kohl’s campaign. The
report said the money was part of pay
offs for the deal by french oil concern
Elf Aquitaine to buy the Leuna refinery.
But in the newspaper interview, Kohl
echoed an earlier denial by his spokesman.
He said he had only acted in the interest
of securing jobs.
“1 at no time received money, and
also had no knowledge whatsoever about
shady financial machinations,” Kohl told
the newspaper.
Kohl said the Leuna deal prevented
mass unemployment in the region where
the refinery was based.
Primary
from page A3
es last week and would be staggered by
a second-straight defeat in New Hamp
shire. The former lawmaker surrendered
his lead to Gore in New Hampshire polls
during the vice president’s aggressive fi
nal week of campaigning in Iowa.
Bradley, however, has enough
money to continue beyond this state, and
has released a schedule showing that he
intends to do so. The next contests — a
series of March 7 primaries — include
states where Bradley is strong.
Since the waning days of the Iowa
campaign, Bradley has been tom between
a need to attack Gore and a fear that neg
ative campaigning will tarnish his self
styled image as a non-politician. Daily
polling, which is sometimes unreliable,
showed Bradley edging toward Gore
— and the vice president seemed to be
feeling the heat.
“Why would Senator Bradley
break his promise to run a different kind
of campaign and launch divisive, manip
ulative attacks?” Gore asked supporters,
as Democratic leaders backing the vice
president utged Bradley to cuib his crit
icism.
Bradley has turned the tables on Gore:
The vice president revitalized his sagging
campaign last fall by launching a full
throated case against Bradley’s health
care plan and questioning the former New
Jersey senator’s commitment to the De
mocratic Party.
With aides promising still harder at
tacks, Bradley stopped short of calling
Gore a liar. “I don’t think that he said
the truth” about his abortion record in
Congress, Bradley told ABC.
At a rally later, Bradley waved a re
cent article about Gore’s 19% fund-rais
ing trip to a Buddhist Temple near Los
Angeles and demanded an explanation.
He said the fund-raising scandal “was a
disgrace” to both parties, particularly De
mocrats.
“When we all get into bed with the
special interests, I think that makes a
more serious problem for us than for Re
publicans,” Bradley said.
He suggested that Gore’s role in the
fund-raising abuses would make him vul
nerable to attacks by the GOP nominee.
“Unless we clean up our own house,
Republicans will clean it up for us this
fall,” he told ABC.
Ability to be elected president also
was an issue on the GOP side, where Bush
is closing the gap against McCain by
pulling previously undecided Republi
cans into the fold. McCain’s candidacy
depends on a strong turnout from New
Hampshire independents who can vote
in either primary.
McCain, who filled the Peterborough
city hall with red, white and blue bal
loons and more than 1,000 people for his
114th — and final — New Hampshire
town hall, argued that his pledge to re
form the political system makes him bet
ter suited to expose Gore’s weaknesses.
The Arizonan and Navy veteran said Bush
is qualified to be president, but “there’s
only one man who is fully prepared. I
am fully prepared,” particularly on mil
itary and foreign policy matters.
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was stashed away in secret accounts for
the party’s branch in western Hesse state.
He said none of the millions discov
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went to the federal party, denying me
dia reports of a connection.
Weyrauch allegedly ran the entire
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