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...cannot build a new start on a lie," says Barbel Bohley, a leading civil rights activist from Eastern Germany. She warns of the possibility of a "corruptible parliament with members susceptible to blackmail" for their Stasi past. Says Karl-Dietrich Bracher, a political scientist at the University of Bonn: "If we were to have a general amnesty, there would be a general disgust with politics. Some kind of purification is necessary...
...Kuwait that arranged the infamous meeting between the P.L.O.'s United Nations representative and U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young; Kuwait that refused the nomination of an American ambassador because he had previously served as consul in Jerusalem; Kuwait that broke diplomatic relations with West Germany in 1965, when Bonn recognized Israel; Kuwait that dutifully deducted a tithe from the salaries of Palestinians working for the Kuwaiti government for remittance to the P.L.O.; and Kuwait that coughed up millions whenever Yasser Arafat cried bankruptcy -- at least $60 million over the past six years alone...
...insufficient, particularly from two such economic powerhouses as Germany and Japan. Moreover, few allies have pledged any money beyond Jan. 1 (to be fair, most have not yet been asked). So U.S. officials will soon have to rerun the September begging trip that was dubbed Operation Tin Cup. But Bonn is complaining about the high costs of German unification, and the Japanese Finance Ministry is grumbling about the nation's heavy debt. The U.S. Administration has some fancy arm twisting to do -- and if it fails, some even fancier explaining to Congress and the public...
...comfortably noninvolved. None of its soldiers have been or will be sent to the gulf, and virtually all the German hostages returned from Iraq two weeks ago. There have been only minor antiwar demonstrations. Fuel-price increases have failed to stimulate debate: long before the current crisis, Bonn imposed heavy gasoline taxes to encourage conservation; thus higher costs for crude only marginally affected German pump prices, which run in excess...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney 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: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...