NP Germany's next chancellor?

[Otto]

Our next Geli . . .

"(...) the story of the divided life of Angela Merkel, the politician who
next year could become the first woman to lead modern Germany.

"East Germans were used to a strong state," Ms. Merkel, 46, said. "And now
they see this weak state apparently unable to punish abuses - the Vietnamese
spreading drugs, the Albanians stealing cars, the high crime rate among
illegal immigrants, and the police doing nothing about it. This is how
easterners think."

It is hard to escape the impression that this is also - in some measure -
how Angela Merkel thinks. As elsewhere in Europe, immigration is an
explosive issue here. Germany's lingering doubts about its identity after
Nazism, then division, tend to complicate questions of who is German and who
is not."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/01/world/01GERM.html