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...have been slow to ante up. Both claim their postwar constitutions make it impossible for them to send military units outside their own regions. Even if that is true, their prolonged fumbling in reaching for wallets has produced anger on Capitol Hill. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona accused Bonn / of "contemptible tokenism," while Democratic Representative Carroll Hubbard of Kentucky said Tokyo was behaving predictably: "If there's no profit in it for them, forget...
...Brady they would put up more than the $1 billion they had pledged but did not specify an amount. West Germany, which has yet to contribute anything much and whose legislators are squawking at the idea of offering anything significant, is in for some arm twisting when Baker visits Bonn this week...
...economies are on relatively solid ground. None are more robust than West Germany's, which is expected to grow 4% this year, despite the financial burdens of unification. More remarkably, a united German economy should still expand 3.5% in 1991, predicts Peter Pietsch, an economist at Frankfurt's Commerzbank. Bonn has been bolstered by a strong deutsche mark, which this year has gained 8% in value against the dollar, the currency in which oil trading is done. Nevertheless, energy will be one of the many problems facing a united Germany. Says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International: "West...
...friend of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a Conservative Member of Parliament, with a bomb that wrecked his Montego car in the driveway of his home. Three days earlier in West Germany, the Red Army Faction almost succeeded in killing Hans Neusel, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry and Bonn's top antiterrorist expert, in a similar attempt. The actions demonstrated that while their numbers may be dwindling, both the I.R.A. and the R.A.F. do not need popular support, or even broadly based groups of sympathizers, to remain murderously effective...
...same time, Bonn's Defense Minister announced that West German officers would take charge of East German troops in a united army. Negotiators from the two Germanys also agreed last week that Berlin would be the capital of a unified Germany...