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...billion and $9 billion, respectively. Germany also pledged to send antiaircraft missile units to Turkey and defensive military equipment to Israel. Japan assigned five military C-130 transport aircraft to repatriate Asian workers fleeing the war zone. Yet so powerful is their nations' abhorrence of war that Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu risked political rebellion...
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait last August knocked this comfortable quietism sideways. Kohl and Kaifu struggled to live up to allied expectations, but each soon found himself in a political minefield. Kohl had to back off from a suggestion that German soldiers might legally go to the gulf. Kaifu proposed to dispatch troops to noncombat support roles well behind the lines; Japan erupted like a reactivated Mount Fuji...
...inhibitions of Germany and Japan may be, their allies have a point. The time may have arrived when these two nations must begin to find a constructive international role commensurate with their economic strength. Some prominent Japanese agree that the country's pacifism has become in practice isolationism. Kohl echoed that view with respect to his country last week. Addressing the Bundestag, the Chancellor said, "There can be no safe little corner in world politics for us Germans. We have to face up to our responsibility, whether we like...
...pressure to contribute fresh funds to the war effort by providing at least $3.5 billion of additional aid. That would match the $3.5 billion that Bonn has given to show solidarity with the allied cause. In announcing German plans for a contribution "of a large dimension," Chancellor Helmut Kohl conceded that "I cannot exclude that we will have to raise revenues...
Father of His Country Germany's Helmut Kohl, derided by political rivals as a colorless dolt, surprised nearly everyone by how skillfully he managed the blitz of political changes in his country. Just 328 days after the first hammerblows fell on the Berlin Wall, Kohl presided over unification, and later saw his leadership affirmed in the new nation's elections...