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* Relations between the United States and Germany ought to clear now that Gerhard Schroeder has departed. For electoral purposes, he opposed American policies in Iraq and Iran, fragmenting what might otherwise have been a more coherent Western response. His foreign minister, Joschka Fischer of the Green party, never quite outgrew his radical past and enjoyed baiting the United States, especially over Iraq. Angela Merkel's victory over Schroeder's Social Democrats and Fischer's Greens, however, has been too narrow to afford her scope for new directions. Amid much hectic horse-trading between the political parties, and all of it carried out behind closed ...