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...hour discussion with Genscher that Shevardnadze agreed to the two-plus-four formula, and U.S. officials say the Soviets have been more flexible in private than in public. In London a high-ranking British diplomat said, "They are already talking to us as if it were a fait accompli." Said a senior Soviet diplomat: "We of course would prefer a neutral Germany under our influence. If that cannot be . . . we would prefer the Genscher plan to an unanchored neutral Germany on its own. It is better to have it tied to NATO in some form than loose...
...LATE TO DISCUSS WHETHER THE COUNTRY NEEDS A MULTIPARTY SYSTEM OR NOT. IT IS A FAIT ACCOMPLI...
...that comes with a gigantic if: it assumes the operation in Panama will succeed quickly at a relatively light cost. Of all the lessons of foreign policy, the one that seems to apply most directly to Panama is that a fait accompli will be accepted by domestic and world opinion -- but that few setbacks are as damaging as a fait accompli that is not quite accompli...
...Politburo also would retain their posts, including Jozef Lenart, despised for his collaboration with the Soviets in the post-invasion era. And no Strougal partisans would replace the ousted Politburo members. Hence the appointment of Karel Urbanek, a relative unknown, to the prime ministry. Presented with a fait accompli, Jakes reluctantly resigned, along with six of his Politburo allies...
MUCH ink has been spilled recently, on these pages and elsewhere, on the question of German reunification. And for good reason--it is potentially the most important thing that's happened to the Eastern bloc since Yalta, in which international democracy accepted the fait accompli of a Soviet military blanket over Eastern Europe and thereby condemned millions of its newest members to at least 44 years of political suppression and economic stagnation...