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...happened 50 years ago, when we were occupied. But don't forget the great reconciliation between the two countries that began with Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, continued with Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt and goes on now with the friendship between Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl...
...firms are already making major investments. Such a pull to the East, Eurocrats fear, could delay or even cancel the economic and political integration of the E.C. West German leaders deny any such intention. "No one needs to be worried about a German dominance in the European Community." says Kohl. "A united Germany would also be a reliable and solid partner...
...refusing to guarantee the Polish borders, Kohl allowed much of the world to point the finger and say, See, there they go again. As Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki told TIME last week, "All the recent ambiguous statements on the issue have convinced us that we are correct in demanding that the border be confirmed before Germany's unification...
That question will demand an answer in December if Kohl loses the West German election to the SPD. Some Social Democrats see little utility in NATO and believe that most of the voters share their view. The most likely SPD candidate for Chancellor, Saarland governor Oskar Lafontaine, says flatly, "Kohl is wrong if he thinks Germany can stay in NATO." Lafontaine favors a European defense system in a "United States of Europe." That kind of talk shocks Washington, and the Bush Administration has decided to put its weight behind Kohl and his commitment to the Atlantic Alliance. Even in Washington...
...Federal Republic is already Western Europe's leading economic power. It should soon be even stronger: unification with East Germany will increase its population 27% and its gross domestic product 24%. In the near term, however, union will entail heavy expenditures for the Bonn government. Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced last week that East German marks held in private savings accounts, officially valued at about $100 billion, would be exchanged for deutsche marks on a 1-for-1 basis. Bringing the East German social and economic infrastructure up to Western standards over the next several years will require the investment...