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Germany is powerful, and there is economic jealousy, which is understandable. And there were the damaging three weeks it took Chancellor Kohl to realize that he had to be firm and definitive about guaranteeing the Oder-Neisse border with Poland. That was enough to worry some people -- including in France. Still, it doesn't change our position, which is that we favor German unity. The fewer problems Germans have between themselves, the fewer they will have with the rest of the world...
...still months away, East Germans demonstrated last week that they are at one with the democratic spirit of their Western brethren. Fully 93% of the East German electorate turned out to hammer the last nail in the Communists' coffin. A three-party alliance headed by the CDU, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's sister party, shocked the supposedly front-running Social Democratic Party by winning 48% of the vote. The SPD captured only 22%. The conservative alliance fell just eight seats short of a majority in the 400-member Volkskammer, or parliament. Although that forced negotiations over the shape...
Determined to go into December's election as "the unification Chancellor," Kohl has been summoning up on the hustings the name of Otto von Bismarck, who first achieved a united Germany in 1871, and closing with the call, "God bless our German fatherland." But it has also dawned on him that his politically motivated equivocation over Poland's borders -- a play to German right-wing sentiment -- has been damaging. Kohl last week emphasized that a unified Germany would have "good relations with all countries in East and West, and I name Poland in first place." No one need fear...
That question will demand an answer in December if Kohl loses the West German election to the SPD. Some Social Democrats see little utility in NATO and believe that most of the voters share their view. The most likely SPD candidate for Chancellor, Saarland governor Oskar Lafontaine, says flatly, "Kohl is wrong if he thinks Germany can stay in NATO." Lafontaine favors a European defense system in a "United States of Europe." That kind of talk shocks Washington, and the Bush Administration has decided to put its weight behind Kohl and his commitment to the Atlantic Alliance. Even in Washington...
...Federal Republic is already Western Europe's leading economic power. It should soon be even stronger: unification with East Germany will increase its population 27% and its gross domestic product 24%. In the near term, however, union will entail heavy expenditures for the Bonn government. Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced last week that East German marks held in private savings accounts, officially valued at about $100 billion, would be exchanged for deutsche marks on a 1-for-1 basis. Bringing the East German social and economic infrastructure up to Western standards over the next several years will require the investment...