Word: kohl
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...Bush had to choose between the success of Gorbachev's program to reform the Soviet Union and the fulfillment of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's plan to create a German "federation," the President would almost certainly pick perestroika, since that is what is driving the new Soviet foreign policy. On this issue, Malta was an exercise in private commiseration and public obfuscation. With Bush at his side at their joint press conference, Gorbachev said that "history" should be allowed to determine the status of the two Germanys, and he warned against any "artificial acceleration" of the "process of change...
...state was ever conjured in the speech -- seemed to appeal to many of Bonn's allies, as did the fact that the text betrayed no inclination for West Germany to stray from the folds of NATO or the European Community. The U.S. reacted positively, though it did not endorse Kohl's plan. State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said that "it should be no cause for concern that the Chancellor has laid out his vision for the future of Germany." The presentation did surprise Western capitals in one regard: Kohl had consulted none of them -- not even Paris, London and Washington...
...reaction in East Germany, another audience whose interests Kohl undoubtedly weighed, was more mixed. The parliament in East Berlin fulfilled one of Kohl's prerequisites -- for its own purposes, to be sure, not in order to please Kohl -- by eliminating the Communist Party's monopoly of power. But East German leader Egon Krenz told TIME that "so long as both states remain in their political and military alliances, a confederation of the two states is simply not possible." Several of the country's new opposition parties also weighed in against the Kohl scheme because of their desire to maintain some...
...statements." Faced with the paradox of how to hold on to the Soviet Union's most strategically and economically valuable ally now that all the satellites have been freed from their confining orbits, Gorbachev warned that "any attempt to extract selfish benefits from these events ((is)) fraught with chaos." Kohl's next and far more difficult task is to convince Gorbachev -- and many who silently think like him -- that chaos is just what his plan will avert...
...Homburg, an elite spa north of Frankfurt, is home to many of West Germany's top executives and bankers. Last Thursday morning the most eminent of the lot, Alfred Herrhausen, 59, chief executive of Deutsche Bank and personal economic adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, left his home at the usual time, shortly after 8:30 a.m., and set out for Frankfurt's financial district in his armored, chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz 500SE, escorted by two other automobiles with four bodyguards. The car had traveled 550 yds. along a tree-lined street when a tremendous explosion hurled it into...