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Invoking the spirit--but only some of the substance--of the Marshall Plan, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, speaking at Harvard Commencement exercises earlier this month, called for the United States to work with Germany to help Europe on its way to a "United States of Europe...
With frequent allusions to the 1947 Harvard Commencement Speech given by Secretary of State George C. Marshall, in which Marshall announced his plan to funnel massive financial aid to rebuild war-torn Europe, Kohl said the United States should remain a "European power" in the coming decades...
...Kohl, who has emerged as a leading architect of the post-Cold War Europe, insisted the United States must play a crucial role in turning the remnants of East Bloc communism into democracy...
...help Moscow see that light, Kohl has been energetically pursuing private bilateral dealings with the Soviets, along with formal negotiations. At last month's Two-plus-Four negotiations -- the unification talks involving the two Germanys and the four Allied victors of World War II -- Kohl huddled with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. In the most dramatic move, Kohl's top foreign policy adviser, Horst Teltschik, was dispatched to Moscow last month for consultations -- a trip that Kohl tried to keep secret not only from Washington but also from Genscher, a sometime political rival...
This time nobody could pretend that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were determining the future of the world. That is, frankly, beyond their control. There was a sense in Washington of the leaders' looking over their shoulders -- to Bonn, where Helmut Kohl is marching Germany toward unification; to Moscow, where Boris Yeltsin is boosting his own brand of perestroika; even to the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, where economists track America's federal deficit as it slips further out of control. Both Presidents face more bothersome troubles at home than they have with each other...