Word: german-polish
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...opening session had been intended to cover only procedural matters, but was forced into substance by a dispute that illustrates how quickly old apprehensions are resurfacing. Alarmed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl's ambiguity about the status of postwar German-Polish borders along the so-called Oder- Neisse line, the Poles demanded a seat at the table for discussions of their frontiers. Paris and London backed Warsaw -- something that sounded depressingly reminiscent...
...Administration's German policy is the most nuanced of all. The Bush- Baker approach was reflected in their refusal to bash Helmut Kohl publicly for failing to declare the German-Polish border inviolate. As other Western leaders held press conferences to vent their spleen on the border issue, Washington urged privately that Kohl's coalition partners bear the burden of turning the Chancellor around, a result accomplished last week...
...Warsaw, the official newspaper Zycie Warszawy reflected Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka's newly amiable attitude toward Bonn by suggesting that German-Polish talks on the renunciation of force were "imminent." This week the two nations open new discussions on trade...
...with each other and prefer to socialize with their Communist customers. This leads to a lot of overeating, undersleeping and hangovers. The Easterners enjoy treating their capitalist guests to marathon meals, brassy nightclubs and the other delights of bourgeois Bolshevism. Says Günter Friedrich, head of Depolma, a German-Polish trading company: "You have to have an enormous capacity for vodka and an endless stock of jokes-particularly political jokes and spicy ones...
...appointments no longer be subject to state veto. Having gained these concessions, the Vatican last week named five auxiliary bishops to long-vacant Polish dioceses in the western lands taken from Germany (the Vatican did not accredit them to specific districts so as to take no sides in the German-Polish territorial rivalry). Finally, the Gomulka government released imprisoned priests to resume their parish work in Silesia...