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...inter-German border, a zone that Honecker ordered fortified with mines and trip-wired "scatter guns" in the 1970s. The communist leader's extradition was the result of months of arduous negotiations between Germany, Russia and Chile, and it finally came about after personal talks between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Chilean President Patricio Aylwin. The trial is unlikely to start until October at the earliest, but many fear it could prove politically messy, even stirring up unwanted memories of the Nuremberg trials. Meanwhile, newly discovered East German military files reveal that at least 350 people, double the previously known...
...tossed out a novel idea for paring down his country's crushing $70 billion foreign debt. He would trade property -- land, factories, warehouses, oil and mining concessions -- to Western investors, government and private, that would in turn cancel Moscow's debts to them. The seven offered what German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called an extended breathing space. No details, but probably Russia can wangle a two-year moratorium during which it pays only interest on its loans...
This year's top vote getter was Alma H. Young '69, the first Black woman to run a major U.S. port authority, who tallied 22,596 votes. Young was followed closely by David L. Johnston '63, vice-chancellor of McGill University, who received 22,004 votes...
Wharton enrolled at Harvard at age 16, was thefirst Black member of WHRB and graduated cumlaude in 1947. An economist and expert oninternational affairs, Wharton began his tenure asthe first Black president of Michigan stateUniversity in 1969 and became Chancellor of theState University of New York...
...LINEUP OF WORLD LEADERS WILL include Prime Minister John Major, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and, now that he has finally made up his mind to go, President George Bush. The Dalai Lama will join a delegation of clerics, artists and green-minded parliamentarians. Hundreds of native leaders, from American Indians to Malaysian tribesmen, will represent the interests of the world's indigenous peoples. Tens of thousands of diplomats, scientists, ecologists, theorists, feminists, journalists, tourists and assorted hangers-on are expected to gather in dozens of auditoriums and outdoor sites for nearly 400 official and unofficial events, among...