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...their rush toward unification over the past 11 months, East and West Germany struck down the barriers between them like so many tenpins. The most unforgettable and heart-quickening breakthrough was the first, the fall of the Berlin Wall last Nov. 9. Then came free elections in the East on March 18, economic union on July 1, and the Sept. 12 agreement of the four World War II Allies to end their remaining occupation rights in Berlin...
...those could be taken as the date on which unification became inevitable. But the date that will be celebrated in the future Germany comes this week, Oct. 3, when the Freedom Bell in West Berlin's Schoneberg city hall tolls and the flag of the Federal Republic of Germany is raised in front of the 96-year-old Reichstag building. At that moment, the German Democratic Republic, a relic of Stalin's postwar empire, ceases to exist...
News Editor for this Issue: Melissa R. Hart '91 Night Editors: Effie K. Anagnostopoulos '92 Julian E. Barnes '93 Jonathan M. Berlin '92 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Joshua A. Gerstein '91-'92 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Editor: John L. Larew '91 Week in Review Editor: Melissa R. Hart '91 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Photo Editors: Debra A. Schafer '93 Kimberly A. Ziev '93 Business Editor: Timothy B. Paydos...
News Editor for this Issue: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Night Editors: Jonathan M. Berlin '92 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Liam T.A. Ford '91-92 Joshua A. Gerstein '91-92 Stephen J. Newman '92 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Joshua W. Shenk '93 Arts Editors: Kelly A.E. Mason '92 Suzanne Petren-Moritz '91 Feature Editor: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Liane M. Clamen '91 Business Editor: Raymond Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Michele F. Forman...
...imminent shift of the national capital from Bonn in the West to Berlin in the East only underscores the insecurity that many felt when Germany signed a non-aggression accord with the Soviet Union this summer. To these people, the best way to deal with Germany is to integrate it into the rest of the continent as rapidly and in as many ways as possible...