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Shifts in history aren't usually this well orchestrated, even in Germany. Last week the Allies formally ended their 49-year occupation of Berlin, withdrawing the last of their troops; Chancellor Helmut Kohl, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, British Prime Minister John Major and French President Francois Mitterrand marked the occasion by delivering heartfelt speeches about friendships forged in conflict. But even as ordinary Berliners were toasting the departing American soldiers, a few blocks away Germany's business leaders were greeting a star-studded U.S. corporate delegation eager to get the new era of peace and prosperity...
...real pomp was reserved for the departure of the U.S., British and French Allied troops today, after a half-century of military presence. "We came to Berlin as occupying forces, we stayed as protecting forces, and we leave as friends," said British Prime Minister John Major, flanked by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, President Francois Mitterrand of France and Secretary of State Warren Christopher. But crowds were thinner than expected: with so many ceremonies, toasts, speeches and parades to honor Allied and Russian troops in the past two weeks, Berliners are complaining of "nostalgia fatigue...
...help prevent that, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent intelligence coordinator Bernd Schmidbauer to Moscow on Saturday to talk with President Boris Yeltsin about ways to tighten controls over nuclear stocks. "We have to tell our Russian friends," said Kohl, "you must guarantee that these possibilities for theft are reduced as much as possible...
...statement released in Germany, the two countries "emphasized the urgent necessity of putting a stop to the illegal trade in radioactive and nuclear material, regardless of its origin." The sketchy agreement is the fruit of a three-day visit to Moscow by German envoy Bernd Schmidbauer, whom an alarmed Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent over after Munich police confiscated 350 grams of plutonium traced to Russia...
Germany and the U.S. have put former Soviet countries' lax control over weapons-grade plutonium on the international front burner. In Germany, where police have now seized four caches of smuggled plutonium, Chancellor Helmut Kohl demanded guarantees from Russia that it would step up efforts to crack down on thefts from nuclear plants. He had the full backing of the U.S. Other German officials said they want Europe's fledgling police agency, Europol, and German spies to fight the smugglers. Russia, despite solid German evidence to the contrary, denied that even one grain of its plutonium is missing. But TIME...