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...Wall. "Germany should once again become the united fatherland of all the citizens of the German nation," he said. Modrow unveiled a four-step process for the gradual merger of the two Germanys' economies, legal systems and governments that closely paralleled the plan presented in December by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, except on one critical point. Modrow unequivocally called for a neutral Germany, demanding that both states "detach themselves" from their respective military alliances...
Fears of unrest were also sounded in Bonn, where authorities are worried about ferment within East Germany and the continuing tide of immigrants to the West, which is still running at about 2,000 a day. A top official of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government, wary of calling too brazenly for unification, urged another formulation. East Berlin, he suggested, should declare that a federal state binding together the two Germanys is the goal of both countries. That, West German officials felt, might help reassure would-be immigrants and stanch the flow...
...Paris last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said soothingly that "the Germans have no intention of provoking in the Europe of the future a discussion about frontiers" that would disrupt the Continent. But he again stopped short of saying Bonn has no territorial claims against Poland, insisting that he could not speak for both German states on the issue. With a national election in December, he apparently does not want to risk losing votes to the ultra-right-wing Republican Party...
...centerpiece of the new chancellor's plan is "school-based management," an approach he introduced in Dade County. With this strategy, in use in 130 of Miami's 260 schools, much of the power has passed from elected officials to individual schools. Although student test scores have not improved and morale at some Miami schools has actually dipped, Fernandez remains committed to installing a similar program in New York...
Fernandez's detractors complain that he has an authoritarian manner and is too chummy with the local teachers union. He has already alienated city bureaucrats by appointing a deputy chancellor critical of the school system and by announcing plans to eliminate some 200 jobs at the board of education's central headquarters. Meanwhile, eyebrows have been raised over his hefty compensation package, which includes a $195,000 salary, free housing and $214,000 in supplemental pension pay. But Fernandez seems impervious to criticism."One thing I will never have is an ulcer," he shrugs. "I get angry and move...