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| | USATODAY.com - Woman could be Germany's next chancellor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Angela Merkel, head of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), faces Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in elections on Sunday, perhaps the most important since German reunification in 1990. |
 | | As she grew up, Merkel "was very critical" of East Germany's communist system, says Gerd Langguth, author of a Merkel biography. |
 | | If Merkel wins, she is likely to try to return Germany to its traditional role as a peacemaker between France and the United States, says Jan-Friedrich Kallmorgen, director of Atlantic Initiative, a think tank in Berlin. |
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