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...plainly so it is clear which side has been pressing for hectic haste and spreading rumors. My government is neither ready nor empowered to enter a currency union with West Germany . . . You cannot rush it." The outgoing Communist Prime Minister went on to complain of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's sluggishness in guaranteeing Polish borders, and his insistence that a united Germany remain in NATO. "No German state has the right to ignore history," he said...
Strong words, but Modrow hardly uttered them from a position of strength. With most of Modrow's countrymen in favor of unification and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl handling the merger as if it were a one-man takeover, Modrow is finding it difficult to get anyone except perhaps his closest relatives to consider him relevant. And with elections taking place Sunday, the Communist Prime Minister of East Germany has less than a week to go in an office that may not even exist by this time next year. Hans Modrow, 62, is the lamest of lame ducks: outgoing leader...
...most trusted political figure, a startling result in a country fed up with Communists. By contrast, Ibrahim Bohme, the SPD leader and Modrow's probable successor as Prime Minister, scored only 15%. In West Germany another popularity ranking conducted by ZDF television gave Modrow a higher ranking than Kohl...
...Administration's German policy is the most nuanced of all. The Bush- Baker approach was reflected in their refusal to bash Helmut Kohl publicly for failing to declare the German-Polish border inviolate. As other Western leaders held press conferences to vent their spleen on the border issue, Washington urged privately that Kohl's coalition partners bear the burden of turning the Chancellor around, a result accomplished last week...
Bush and Baker have never worried that a resurgent Germany might actually demand the lands lost to Poland after World War II. What does concern them is , Kohl's survival. Their calculation is simple: Germany's continued economic, political and military integration into a unified Europe is essential for world peace. They fear that Kohl's opponents, the Social Democrats, might succumb to neutralism, with unforeseeable consequences as Germany flexes its considerable economic muscle in the coming effort to rebuild Eastern Europe...