The World - News from Sept. 12, 1989

West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was reelected chairman of his party, the Christian Democratic Union, but with a record number of votes against him. More than three-quarters of the delegates at the party congress in Bremen voted for Kohl to stay on as party leader for the next two years and take them into the 1990 general election. But a record 147 of the 738 delegates present on the opening day of the congress voted against the chancellor, who was the only candidate. The party has suffered setbacks in local and European elections in the past year. Public disputes between liberals and conservatives within the party have also damaged its standing.