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...problem, it's another. After surrendering his party's monopoly , on power last week, Mikhail Gorbachev turned his attention to a separate issue that he and his countrymen find painful: the incipient unification of Germany. On Saturday West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived in Moscow for two hours of talks with the Soviet President. Emerging from their meeting, Kohl declared that Gorbachev had promised to respect a united Germany. Kohl and his Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, said a plan for unification, in concert with France, Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, would be ready by this year...
During the weeks that Soviet leaders have been preoccupied with remaking their party and government, the pressure for unity inside the two Germanys has mounted faster than was predicted even in this age of sudden European transformations. In Bonn last week, Kohl won his coalition government's approval for talks with East Berlin on a monetary union that would make the deutsche mark the currency in both Germanys. He also set up a Cabinet-level committee to devise specific plans and legislation for political unification. Discussions on the merger would begin with the new East German government to be elected...
...revival of sinister shadows of the past" and said the world needs guarantees that the danger of war will never again arise in Germany. The Soviet Union's own borders will have to be firmly secured, Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev insisted last week, reflecting Soviet irritation at Kohl for refusing to renounce claims to prewar territories now incorporated into Poland. "We are in favor of a European Germany," Yakovlev said, "not a German Europe...
...European frontiers. Washington now seems ready to go along. If such a conference is held, it might create a Europe in which there is technically no one to be neutral -- or belligerent -- against. But the Soviets will need more than a one-day visit and soothing words from Helmut Kohl to be convinced of that...
...Maybe. Go? Not yet. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's call for immediate talks about making the West German mark the common currency of both Germanys has added a new ingredient to the bubbling brew of unification discussion. Like Kohl's other efforts to seize the initiative, it drew a mixed reception. One skeptical voice was that of the Deutsche Bundesbank, legally responsible for protecting the value of the currency. But Kohl's proposal also jolted the average West German into awareness that unification has its price, payable in deutsche marks...