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West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's speech at Harvard's Commencement this afternoon symbolizes not only the dawn of a new order for Europe, but also the end of an era that began with a speech on the very same rostrum four decades...
...today's address in Tercenterary Theater, Kohl will likely discuss the Marshall Plan, too, but in a different context. Although Kohl still urges a strong American presence in Europe, he realizes that Germany and other European states can exist without such strong American influence...
...thinly veiled jab at West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Gorbachev said his "biggest concern" in foreign policy was "some politicians who still think about international relations mostly with respect to their own terms of office and electoral ambitions at a time when we are trying to lay down the foundations for a new international community...
...Germanys hurtle toward unification, politicians worry about how soon it should happen and who will be the leader of the new nation. Last week Chancellor Helmut Kohl urged even speedier progress, hoping to give his Christian Democratic Party -- and Kohl -- an edge. His allies proposed advancing the date for all-German elections...
West Germans realize that unity could cost up to $100 billion, and East Germans are apprehensive about massive unemployment. Kohl wants the election to take place before Germans sour on the idea -- or him. "Act soon," Kohl said his advisers told him. Added Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "History does not repeat its offers...