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What began amid so much optimism in June of 1990 -- the unification of Germany -- is now mired in difficulty. To find out why, Bonn bureau chief James Jackson and correspondent Daniel Benjamin traveled across the republic for several months. They spoke with economists in Munich, psychologists in Halle and Wuppertal, even frightened foreigners in a western asylum camp. They attended classes at the University of Leipzig, interviewed fledgling eastern businessmen, and met with youth workers in Berlin. From the windows of a Soviet-built helicopter, Jackson snapped photographs of military bases, an unheard-of act only two years...
...Nazism. Swastikas are turning up on the walls of Berlin and Cottbus and Leipzig, put there not by elderly lost-cause Nazis but by teenagers with crewcuts and black boots. The neo-Nazism is mostly an eastern manifestation, but it shows up in the west as well. In Bonn, the municipal symbol of a reformed and repentant Germany, a sidewalk last month blossomed with a childish scrawl: (swastika sign...
...crises and tensions of cold war. Yet there too unexpected problems have arisen. The withdrawal of the Soviet Union's 380,000 troops in the east, due to be completed in 1994, is turning out to be costly and messy. First there is the more than $15 billion that Bonn promised to pay Moscow for transportation, new housing and the purchase of vacated bases. But it could cost nearly that much again to clean up oil, munitions, radioactive wastes, chemicals and other pollutants left behind...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan, David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...
...decision still provides for a partial compromise. The Chancellor's office, the Bundestag and key officials in the ministries will go to Berlin, but thousands of bureaucrats are to remain in Bonn. The transfer, which will cost more than $30 billion, will take 10 to 12 years...