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...Moscow's ever louder refusal to countenance one Germany in NATO. Last week's summit underscored the Soviet Union's deep wariness of its former enemy and its difficulty digesting the fact that East Germans will wind up in the Western military alliance. At the same time, Washington and Bonn agree that the unified Germany must remain firmly entrenched in NATO...
Many foreign policy experts are convinced that Moscow will negotiate furiously for economic and security assurances before approving unification. Germany can offer technology, loans and credits that would give a crucial boost to the disintegrating Soviet economy. For its part, Bonn is quick to deny it is trying to appease Soviet military fears with purely economic payoffs. Instead officials talk of weaving a web of mutual understanding, where both sides would benefit economically and politically. Though Washington would welcome any arrangement that makes the Kremlin more amenable, it is also likely to have misgivings about the possibility of a burgeoning...
This time nobody could pretend that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were determining the future of the world. That is, frankly, beyond their control. There was a sense in Washington of the leaders' looking over their shoulders -- to Bonn, where Helmut Kohl is marching Germany toward unification; to Moscow, where Boris Yeltsin is boosting his own brand of perestroika; even to the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, where economists track America's federal deficit as it slips further out of control. Both Presidents face more bothersome troubles at home than they have with each other...
Even in their most confidential communications with the Kremlin, U.S. policymakers and diplomats have been careful not to make this pitch too explicit. They are afraid the KGB may make mischief between Washington and Bonn by leaking any cable or memorandum that reveals Americans to be exploiting Soviet anxiety about Germany. There is nothing cryptic about the apprehension of the British, French, Czechoslovaks and Poles as they watch the juggernaut of German unification. The Bush Administration keeps hoping the Kremlin will therefore not object too strenuously as the U.S. helps sponsor the emergence of a new Germany at the center...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Rome: Cathy Booth Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, 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 Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez