Greens Push ``Reds'' To End German Nuke Power

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Sunday October 11 11:41 AM EDT 

BONN (Reuters) - Germany's Greens paeens Push ``Reds'' To End 
German Nuke Powerrty tried Sunday to make the Social 
Democrats give ground over banning nuclear power in talks on 
forming a new coalition government.  

While the negotiations resumed for a fourth round Sunday with a 
show of public unity, first signs emerged of internal divisions within 
Chancellor-elect Gerhard Schroeder's SPD.  

The nuclear issue is central to the small Greens party and of 
symbolic importance after they reportedly gave in to the SPD over 
a so-called ecological tax reform.  

The two parties sat down again in the afternoon on a joint program 
for a ``red-Green'' government, dealing this time with the
fine print of a general tax agreement hammered out last week, and 
with nuclear power and the environment. 

``We will remain tough and we won't yield,'' Kerstin Mueller, Greens 
co-leader in parliament, said on the way into the talks. 

The Greens want an end to nuclear power within eight years while 
the SPD say 20-30 years is more realistic. 


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