Word: deutschlands
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...nuclear arsenal. The same anxiety motivates Czechoslovakia's playwright-President Vaclav Havel, Poland's Solidarity Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and many politicians in Western Europe. If they accept Bush's idea of NATO uber alles, it will be as a hedge against the resurgence of a malevolent Deutschland. But will the government and citizens of a unified Germany accept that idea? Will they want to be forever, or even for long, members of an alliance whose purpose, unstated but unmistakable, is not to protect them from others but to protect others from them? If that is the German Question...
...drive Modrow out of the Central Committee. What they found was an incorrupt politician who worked hard, lived modestly and jogged six miles every day. "The Old Guard hated him because he was so unlike them," said Reiner Oschmann, deputy editor of the once mighty party daily, Neues Deutschland. "He did not preach water and drink wine, as they did." While Modrow built an admirably efficient electronics industry in Dresden, top party leaders feared his popularity and resented his failure to render the obsequious flattery that they had come to expect from underlings...
Near Matthies' home lies a memorial stone engraved with the words DEUTSCHLAND IST UNTEILBAR (Germany is indivisible), placed there three decades ago by a private organization. Yet Zicherie and the East German town of Bockwitz, just across the double fence, were divided for 32 years. In the old days, getting from Zicherie to Bockwitz entailed a drive of 120 miles and special permission, rarely given, to enter the border zone. Few took the trouble. On Nov. 14 East German workers cut the wire, and now hundreds of two- stroke Trabants pour across the line every day, loaded with East German...