World IN BRIEF : EAST GERMANY : Social Democrats Honor Willy Brandt
From Times staff and Wire reports
East German Social Democrats, many overcome with emotion and with tears in their eyes, elected former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt as their party’s honorary chairman. Brandt was among many top-ranking West German Social Democrats attending the first national convention of the East German sister party in Leipzig. Polls have predicted the East German Social Democrats will be the leading contenders in next month’s national elections.
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