Word: horst
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With the two Germanys discussing the prospect of reunification, many West Germans want to reduce or eliminate most of those old Allied rights, including Soviet rights in East Germany. Horst Ehmke, foreign policy spokesman for the opposition Social Democrats, calls for using all-European diplomatic instruments to replace the residual rights of the Allies. "If you talk in terms of occupation powers, then Germans will react with feelings of nationalism," he says. It would be better, he argues, to use the 35-nation Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to bring a formal end to the postwar division...