The World - News from Dec. 4, 1988

The 11-member leadership of the leftist Greens party in West Germany resigned after a no-confidence vote from members seeking a more moderate course. The governing council for the environmentalist party, which holds 44 seats in the Bundestag, had been dominated by a radical faction that sees little worth in trying to influence government actions by working within the 519-member Parliament. About 400 Greens delegates gathered during the weekend in Karlsruhe for a special party conference, during which a no-confidence vote was proposed over “irregularities” in the financing of a new party building in Bonn.