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...civil war. His supporters portray Walesa as a potential dictator; Solidarity ideologue Adam Michnik, for instance, recently described him as "malicious, antagonistic and dangerous" and likely to create the first "Peronist-style" government in Eastern Europe. The Prime Minister's standing received a boost last week when German Chancellor Helmut Kohl unexpectedly agreed to a treaty confirming Poland's western border with Germany...
Nearly as shocking was the arrest of Gabriele Gast, 47, an employee of Bonn's espionage service, where she helped prepare a weekly top-secret intelligence summary for Chancellor Helmut Kohl. For six years she had passed copies to the Stasi, sometimes before Kohl himself saw the reports...
Kohl himself suggested that some of the Stasi material should remain secret. "We cannot permit a failed communist regime to posthumously poison the atmosphere in our country," the Chancellor said last week. "If there is evidence of a crime, then it should go before a court. But we should not start a witch hunt...
...government has kept interest rates high to combat a 10.6% inflation rate, at least 1,800 companies have gone bankrupt so far this year. That is more than double the rate of business failures over the same period a year ago. To take the edge off the pain, Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major last week reduced a key & interest rate by a full percentage point, to 14%. At the same time, Britain said it would join the European Monetary System, which coordinates exchange rates among key members of the European Community...
...addition to Bok, members of the group--known as the Business Coalition for Responsible Change--include Jean Mayer president of Tufts University; the Rev. J. Donald Monan, president of Boston College; and Joseph Duffey, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, according to James W. Segel '67, the group's executive director...