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...never before in postwar history. It is assuming a forceful leadership role in European foreign policy even as the Bundesbank rules Europe's economic roost. Germany has had a leading role in the task of guiding the former Soviet Union through its postcommunist crisis; it was Chancellor Helmut Kohl who, far more than George Bush, pushed for last week's $24 billion Group of Seven aid package for Boris Yeltsin's Russian government. And German firms are grabbing up many of the best business opportunities in the emerging market economies of Central Europe...
...Hitler's Germany did the same thing." The attack was intemperate and unfair -- it was Turkey that had been behaving brutally, not Germany -- and anger with the Ankara government ran so high in Germany that Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg resigned for having failed to stop the arms shipments earlier. Kohl rightly rejected Ozal's "tone and content...
...only two days earlier, Kohl himself had gratuitously disturbed the skeletons of the past when he hosted a cordial lunch in Munich for Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. That made him the first Western leader to meet Waldheim outside Austria, breaking the diplomatic isolation imposed on the Austrian President for his suspected knowledge of and involvement in wartime deportations to Nazi labor camps. Kohl brooked no criticism. "It's up to me as Chancellor to decide whom I'll meet in Munich," he growled. "I don't need any advice...
Harvard has traditionally invited heads ofstate to speak at Commencement. In recent years,speakers have included German Prime MinisterHelmut Kohl and Pakistani leader Benazir P. Bhutto...
EDITORIAL SERVICES: Christiana Walford (Director); Jennie Chien, Hanns Kohl, Benjamin Lightman, Beth Bencini Zarcone...