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Computers can play tricks, for example. One winter's evening in 1986, then Moscow bureau chief James Jackson, now in Bonn, completed a 2,500-word story on his portable computer and decided to run a spelling-check program to catch typos. He had not used the program in some time and could not remember the computer code name that activated it. Guessing, he ran a program mysteriously titled AB; when nothing seemed to happen, he ran it again. Jackson was then horrified to see his entire report reorganized into an alphabetical list of single words, from Akhromeyev to Zelenogorsk...
...trying to ensure a strong U.S. hand in the design and maintenance of Europe's new security order. Over three days, Secretary of State James Baker met with his NATO and European Community counterparts in Brussels, then conferred with German leaders and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Bonn. The next day he proceeded to the Foreign Ministry to discuss the future of Germany at the so-called Two-Plus-Four talks, the six-nation group composed of West and East Germany and the four Allied powers of World War II (the U.S., the Soviet Union, France and Britain...
...Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere said that, despite Moscow's objections, his country would be interested in joining NATO, albeit one with a changed "structure and strategy." De Maiziere did not spell out what changes he had in mind, but West Germany is confident the East Germans will follow Bonn's lead...
...elections in East Germany on March 18 are a case in point. Kohl pressured three East German parties to join forces by forming the "Alliance for Germany," which, incidentally, was proclaimed in Bonn rather than in East Berlin. At campaign rallies in East Germany, he let himself be announced as the "Chancellor of the German Fatherland." Subsequently, he declared openly that the flow of West German aid to East Germany was conditional on the outcome of East German elections...
...moment, Bonn is preparing the final documents for monetary and economic reunification; East Germany has two weeks to modify the submission of the East German economy to West German control. The haste is a direct result of the upcoming election campaign in West Germany, where speedy reunification is Kohl's trump card. A crucial political decision involving an explosive historical precedent has become a stepping stone to Kohl's personal power...