But Ludwigshafen's favorite son barely glances at them as he launches into his standard 100-minute campaign speech.
Bernd Horion, a spokesman for Rhineland Palatinate state, said the West German man died at a Ludwigshafen clinic, more than two weeks after the world's worst air show catastrophe.
He will meet with Chancellor Helmut Kohl at Kohl's home in a suburb of Ludwigshafen.
The local Ludwigshafen chorus was excellent. I enjoyed this encounter with Stiffelio.
Knoll is a subsidiary of BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, West Germany.
Alcan Aluminium Ltd. said it will close its aluminum smelter at Ludwigshafen, West Germany, by the end of June because of high electricity costs.
"It was accidentally dumped into the river on Nov. 28 by BASF," a chemical company in Ludwigshafen, West Germany, Mrs. Schierman said.