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West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will deliver the principle address at this year's Commencement Exercises, a source close to Kohl confirmed yesterday...
...major figure in the European political scene who is expected to be the principle architect of a reunified Germany, Kohl has accepted Harvard's invitation and plans to attend on June 7, the source said...
Germany is powerful, and there is economic jealousy, which is understandable. And there were the damaging three weeks it took Chancellor Kohl to realize that he had to be firm and definitive about guaranteeing the Oder-Neisse border with Poland. That was enough to worry some people -- including in France. Still, it doesn't change our position, which is that we favor German unity. The fewer problems Germans have between themselves, the fewer they will have with the rest of the world...
...away, East Germans demonstrated last week that they are at one with the democratic spirit of their Western brethren. Fully 93% of the East German electorate turned out to hammer the last nail in the Communists' coffin. A three-party alliance headed by the CDU, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's sister party, shocked the supposedly front-running Social Democratic Party by winning 48% of the vote. The SPD captured only 22%. The conservative alliance fell just eight seats short of a majority in the 400-member Volkskammer, or parliament. Although that forced negotiations over the shape...
...want to lose its standing as the leading opposition to the Party of Democratic Socialism, the newly retooled communist organization, which took a surprising 16% of last week's vote. Others suggest that the Social Democrats' reluctance is inspired by Oskar Lafontaine, the SPD candidate who will confront Kohl in West Germany's national elections this December. Lafontaine may fear that by joining a grand coalition, his sister party in the East would be seen as a handmaiden of CDU policies...