DOUBTLESS NONE OF THESE GUYS will volunteer to work as Chancellor Schroeder's campaign manager...

Thirteen mayors of German cities came to Washington to plead their case: American troops are welcome, indeed necessary, in their communities.

But the mayors may not be flying home feeling all that good. The lord mayor of Kaiserslautern, Bernhard Deubig, told reporters that he asked members of Congress about a report in the Wall Street Journal that said some 75 percent of American forces in Germany could be withdrawn.

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