New voices were raised here today in favor of outlawing the extreme right-wing National Democratic Party, described by many as neo-Nazi, which made surprising gains in the recent elections in Baden-Wurttemburg, ostensibly the most liberal of West German states. The leadership of the West German trade union movement (DGB), demanded that the party be banned because of recent terrorist acts by some of its members against the left-wing student center in Berlin. Herbert Wehner. Minister of German Affairs and deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Party, said at a news conference today that his party would request the Allied powers to outlaw the NPD in Berlin. The three Western allies – the United States, Britain and France – continue to function as occupation powers in West Berlin. The Soviet Union, formerly the occupying power in East Berlin, ceded its rights to the East German Government in 1955, an action the three Western powers do not recognize. The Western powers agreed today to surrender vestigial occupation rights in West Germany as soon as West Germany’s new emergency laws go into effect. But the status of Berlin will remain unchanged.
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