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February 1989: The Bonn government discloses that its intelligence services warned nine years earlier that Gaddafi could be preparing to make chemical weapons "with help from unknown East and West German firms." This admission comes several weeks after authorities, prodded by the U.S., begin an official investigation and seize twelve boxes of IBI documents. Among them are letters of agreement between Imhausen-Chemie and the mysterious IBI -- Ihsan Barbouti International...
Right-wing groups in West Germany have grown increasingly visible recently, but authorities last week drew the line at just how far such movements may go. Bonn banned the 170-member neo-Nazi National Assembly political group, confiscating ammunition, knives and swastikas during nationwide raids on offices and members' apartments. "This strike against neo-Nazis should be seen as an unmistakable warning signal," said Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann. "West Germany will not be a playing field for right-wing extremism...
...BONN, West Germany-Secretary of State James A. Baker III, on his first diplomatic tour of West European capitals, has found it difficult to compete with the public relations blitz of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, a senior U.S. official said yesterday...
...announcement which soothes concerns over a possible breach in the Western Alliance, Baker said in Bonn that West Germany still supports a project to upgrade missiles. But Baker also appeared to soften U.S. demands that NATO endorse the plan this spring...
Baker said Kohl told him "in no uncertain terms" he plans through further negotiations to work out the Bonn government's differences with Washington over what is referred to as modernization of aging, U.S.-built Lance missiles...