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Determined to go into December's election as "the unification Chancellor," Kohl has been summoning up on the hustings the name of Otto von Bismarck, who first achieved a united Germany in 1871, and closing with the call, "God bless our German fatherland." But it has also dawned on him that his politically motivated equivocation over Poland's borders -- a play to German right-wing sentiment -- has been damaging. Kohl last week emphasized that a unified Germany would have "good relations with all countries in East and West, and I name Poland in first place." No one need fear...
Pamyat's political platform blames all of Russia's problems on the nation's 1.8 million Jews. In its January, 1989, "Manifesto of the National-Patriotic Front Pamyat", Russia is described as the "Fatherland, which has been tortured and robbed by aggressive Zionism, talmudic atheism and cosmopolitan usury...
...groups vying for victory in the country's first -- and perhaps last -- free elections on March 18. No one has campaigned with more gusto than West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was in the city of Erfurt last week. When he was introduced as "the Chancellor of our German Fatherland," chants of "Hel-MUT! Hel- MUT!" rose from 100,000 citizens massed in the town square. "We are one Germany!" Kohl declared. "We are one people...
Despite such second thoughts, Gorbachev's earlier words had a profound effect on East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow. Two days later, Modrow signaled that he too had finally read the handwriting on the collapsed Berlin 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...
...though France objects to ceding greater authority to NATO. And Germans themselves seem relieved that the U.S. is determined to remain a European power. Worry is widespread in both Bonn and East Berlin that East Germans' mounting anger at the Communist regime, coupled with emotional longings for "one German * fatherland," could result in violent demonstrations that would paralyze the government. The new leader of the East German Communist Party, Gregor Gysi, last week appealed to the U.S. to play a vigorous role in Europe, mostly to dampen West German pressure for absorbing his country...