21.  In a growing European spat over nuclear policy, German opposition lawmakers accused Environment Minister Juergen Trittin of inept diplomacy with two key allies.

22.  Kinkel suggested German opposition to a NATO-dominated peace-implementing force.

23.  Kinkel suggested German opposition to giving a Balkans peace-implementing a strong NATO command structure, as the United States desires.

24.  Two rival German opposition leaders came under pressure from supporters Monday to end a power struggle and agree which of them should challenge Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in September elections.

25.  Yeltsin also met with German opposition chancellor candidate Gerhard Schroeder.

26.  Finally, he reiterated German opposition to lifting the arms embargo against the former Yugoslavia, which would oblige the UN peacekeepers to leave ex-Yugoslavia.

27.  German opposition social democrat leader Oskar Lafontaine called Monday for talks with the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl on its unpopular tax reforms.

28.  German conservative opposition leader Edmund Stoiber picked up the theme, saying EU states must answer the US call to spend more on defense.

29.  German conservative opposition leader Edmund Stoiber on Saturday called on western Europe to spend more on defense and depend less on the United States.

30.  German conservative opposition leader Edmund Stoiber picked up the theme in his address, calling on EU states to answer the US call for more defense spending.