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...deepest dread, as the collective survivor of the Holocaust that slaughtered 6 million Jews. "We cannot know where German enthusiasm may lead," Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir wrote to Kohl not long ago. "The Jewish people cannot be enthusiastic about this union." Despite a carefully nurtured reconciliation between Jerusalem and Bonn, which has paid $33 billion in reparations to Jews, memories are powerful. When Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, aware that Bonn has often been Israel's best friend in Europe, said he did not "foresee any breakdown of the democratic institutions in West Germany," the daily Ma'ariv retorted that Arens...
...Germans are less apologetic and less willing to accept international tutelage than they used to be, which comes as something of a shock to others. Yet Germans could do more to ease the transition. "Little things add up," said Angelika Volle of the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn. "What Germany needs right now is Fingerspitzengefuhl, a delicate, tactful approach...
...first hints of that design will show up in the two-plus-four talks. Moscow has already indicated some of its demands: removal of all nuclear weapons from Germany, tight limitations on German armed forces, departure of all foreign troops over several years. Bonn is willing to accept most of those requirements in the interest of unification, but has not agreed to the withdrawal of allied troops. If it does, and the last 195,000 Americans from the Central Front go home, it could spell the end of NATO...
...Federal Republic is already Western Europe's leading economic power. It should soon be even stronger: unification with East Germany will increase its population 27% and its gross domestic product 24%. In the near term, however, union will entail heavy expenditures for the Bonn government. Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced last week that East German marks held in private savings accounts, officially valued at about $100 billion, would be exchanged for deutsche marks on a 1-for-1 basis. Bringing the East German social and economic infrastructure up to Western standards over the next several years will require the investment...
...privately threatened to destroy the Rabta plant in the past, and only a week before the fire confirmed that the factory had already produced up to 30 tons of mustard gas. The Israelis are eager to score points with Washington, with whom ! relations are at a low ebb. Bonn may be anxious to atone for the fact that a West German company helped build the facility...