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...tough to read. Being bright and tricky, he's dangerous. He wants an end to the immediate fighting. He wants the sanctions lifted. Our great fear is that after a so-called decent interval he'll try to absorb all of Bosnia. He may try for an Anschluss...
America's resolution came very late -- almost too late -- in the game. Now the slow reactions that helped produce World War II are weighing anew on decision makers' minds in the wake of Iraq's anschluss with Kuwait. A consensus is taking shape that Saddam Hussein should be punished. More important, he must be deterred from further aggression...
While East Germany faces enormous change, the impact of monetary union on West Germany is likely to be modest. The economic Anschluss adds 25% to the population but only around 10% to the gross national product. The conversion of marks adds about the same amount to the West German money supply. If spent, the freshly minted DMs will have the same effect on growth as a sizable tax cut. When this new demand hits a West German economy operating close to capacity, the Bundesbank will be keeping a wary eye on developments. Bundesbank president Karl Otto Pohl calls...
...greatest chancellors has guided his policy towards East Germany. Ever since the wall crumbled in November, Kohl has been pushing for reunification at breakneck speed in order to ensure that he will be in charge of the reunited Germany. The Economist has aptly described unification as "Kohl's Anschluss" and the unified Germany as "Kohl's Kingdom," a pawn for his personal aggrandizement...
...many East Germans, Pieroth is a trenchant symbol of an unwanted West German economic anschluss with East Germany. "The process of developing our own character won't be advanced by flying in experts with their own agendas," says Wolfgang Templin, a member of the parliament from the leftist, ecology- minded Initiative for Peace and Human Rights. To develop a free-market economy, Templin and other critics maintain, East Germany does not have to ape the economy of West Germany. But that is precisely what East Germans voted for overwhelmingly last month, Pieroth responds. Says he: "We can't dictate...