Word: chancellor
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...inhibited the leaders of West Germany's major political parties, who have been crisscrossing their neighbor's landscape on behalf of sister groups vying for victory in the country's first -- and perhaps last -- free elections on March 18. No one has campaigned with more gusto than West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was in the city of Erfurt last week. When he was introduced as "the Chancellor of our German Fatherland," chants of "Hel-MUT! Hel- MUT!" rose from 100,000 citizens massed in the town square. "We are one Germany!" Kohl declared. "We are one people...
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev began the year opposed to German unification but unexpectedly backed East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow's proposal earlier this month for a united, neutral country. Gorbachev then agreed with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl that unification is something for the Germans to work out among themselves, and he seemed to waver even on the principle of neutrality. Two weeks ago, Kohl proposed a monetary union with East Germany. By last week that suggestion had already become official policy on both sides of what used to be the Berlin Wall...
...neighbors who demand guarantees for their borders, Genscher said the united Germany will include the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic and the four sectors of Berlin -- "no less and no more. We do not have any territorial claims against any of our neighbors." Said Chancellor Kohl: " Germany must not thwart European integration. What happens next must not adversely affect the stability of Europe...
...rejected past. More than half of West Germans have been born since the end of World War II, and the theory of unchanging national character is demonstrably unscientific. In any case, the Federal Republic has operated a healthy and vigorous democracy for more than 30 years. As former Chancellor Willy Brandt has said, while it is true that there are nationalistic, right- wing groups in Germany, such movements also exist in East European countries, and the Soviet Union is home to the rightist, anti-Semitic Pamyat organization...
...Maybe. Go? Not yet. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's call for immediate talks about making the West German mark the common currency of both Germanys has added a new ingredient to the bubbling brew of unification discussion. Like Kohl's other efforts to seize the initiative, it drew a mixed reception. One skeptical voice was that of the Deutsche Bundesbank, legally responsible for protecting the value of the currency. But Kohl's proposal also jolted the average West German into awareness that unification has its price, payable in deutsche marks...