Word: berlin
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...when East Germany granted its citizens unrestricted travel rights. Schubert's daily chore is to pick up 25 copies of the Frankenpost, a newspaper published in Hof, a sizable town on the West German side. She is unaware of and untroubled by the fact that politicians in Bonn and Berlin have yet to agree on terms for the distribution of West German newspapers, which have been banned in East Germany for the past three decades. "Frankenpost has a special edition for us, with advertisements for clothes and such," she says. "The West German border police bring the papers along...
...Nine reform groups agreed to each name a Minister Without Portfolio to join Modrow's Cabinet. Former leader Erich Honecker was arrested and then released, being too sick to remain in jail. The homeless ex- President and his wife Margot are staying with the village pastor of Lobetal, near Berlin. Honecker will be tried for treason in March...
Such thinking seems curiously out of tune with the world as it looks in 1990. The Warsaw Pact, for all practical purposes, is dead as a military alliance. Soviet troops might have to fight their way through Warsaw, Prague and even Berlin before getting anywhere near the Fulda Gap, much less Bonn, Rotterdam or Paris. And while the Soviets were long considered capable of mobilizing for a strike at Western Europe in as little as 14 days, Pentagon analysts say that NATO could now detect preparations a month in advance. Some outside experts argue that signs of war would...
Although none of the experts would speculate on a timetable, they agreed that growing forces within the two Germanys will necessitate a conglomeration in the near future. The breakdown of the Berlin Wall this winter was only the beginning of a long unification process, they said...
Many Germans were also outraged to learn that the U.S. military is free to tap German telephone lines without court orders or even the knowledge of the Bonn government. The Allies retain the right to impose death sentences, control inter-German airspace and veto West German decisions concerning Berlin. The rights are resented even if they go unused, as has been the case with death sentences, and more so when used, as happened in 1988 when a U.S. eavesdropping operation exposed the fact that a West German firm was helping build a poison-gas plant in Libya...