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...election was to be the stirring climax to 13 months of breathtaking change. As the first all-German ballot since 1932, when Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party won a plurality, Sunday's vote was portrayed as the ultimate moment of a historical closure. A little more than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and two months after unification, the polling for a new Bundestag would be a celebration of democracy and the end to years of division...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl suffered a rare setback on the road to unity last week when he had to abandon plans to advance the first all-German elections from Dec. 2 to Oct. 14. Opponents charged that Kohl hoped that facing voters sooner rather than later would protect his Christian Democrats from the disillusion of the electorate as the costs of unification swell...
...headlong rush toward unification picked up still more speed last week as East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere urged that all-German elections be moved up from Dec. 2 to Oct. 14. De Maiziere's appeal came just one day after the two Germanys signed a treaty for the first free all-German vote in 57 years. De Maiziere explained that October elections would encourage West German investment in East Germany's floundering economy. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl welcomed the proposal, which will improve the chances of the Christian Democrats, the party of both the Chancellor...
...spokesperson for the East German Social Democrats said the party was "pleased to see Dec. 2 confirmed as the date for all-German elections...
Kohl had also hoped to have a treaty regulating all-German elections ratified by both Parliaments by last night...