Foreign Minister Pauses to Marry

Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer married for the fourth time in a quiet ceremony in Frankfurt, city officials said. Voted Germany’s most popular politician in a recent survey, Fischer, 51, married Nicola Leske, a 29-year-old journalism student. The wedding was scheduled for the Easter weekend but was postponed because of the Kosovo crisis, in which Fischer, leading member of the pacifist Greens party and a former peace campaigner, has played a key role in sending German forces into combat for the first time since World War II. The private civil ceremony, which antiwar activists had threatened to disrupt, took place at Frankfurt’s botanical gardens.