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...last -- freely elected head of government in April 1990, De Maiziere was once a professional violist. After a nerve ailment ended his orchestral career, he took to defending dissidents in court against the Communists who then ruled the East. Last week he resigned as Minister Without Portfolio from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government after he was labeled with another vocation: informant...
...former oppressors and secret accusers brought to justice. Already many Germans are aghast over revelations of former spies -- and therefore traitors -- in their midst. Fearful of the divisive potential of "de-Stasification," some Germans have called for a limited amnesty. In an interview in the daily Die Welt, former Chancellor Willy Brandt said, "Those who abused their countrymen and enriched themselves must go before the courts . . . ((but)) let the others lie in peace." And while East Germany committed no horrors on the scale of the Third Reich, some Germans fear a replay of the turmoil associated with the purges...
Among the most generous rescue efforts are those from Germany. Chancellor Helmut Kohl is eager both to reward Gorbachev's support for unification and to promote stability as a way of keeping hordes of hungry Russians from heading west. The Germans have promised nearly $10 billion in aid, as well as enough meat, milk and medicine for 10 million people for a month. With a sense of irony and shame, war veterans in Leningrad find themselves awaiting CARE packages from Germany nearly 50 years after the city's population was virtually starved in the siege. Many believe Leningrad is suffering...
Pontifell, who founded a smallscale publishing house called Thornwillow Press in 1985, plans to release 2000 of the 44-page books, which outline Kohl's vision for a unified Germany within the framework of Europe. The books also contain a short introduction by the German chancellor...
...reception for Luke I. Pontifell '90, who recently published the limited edition of Helmut Kohl's address at last year's Commencement Exercises, German Consul-General Walter Gerhardt praised his country's chancellor as "the German Hercules...