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Still uncertain, however, was whether formal unity would proceed on Oct. 14 apart from parliamentary elections, now set for Dec. 2. Kohl and East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere had wanted to hold elections and declare unity the same...
...Kohl's decision followed a day-long parliamentary debate in which the opposition Social Democrats insisted they would not give him the two-thirds majority necessary for a constitutional change needed to move up elections...
BONN, West Germany--Chancellor Helmut Kohl dropped plans yesterday to advance all-German elections by six weeks, a major political defeat for the leader who until now had set the pace of German unification...
...Kohl-Genscher marriage of convenience may end after the December elections for the new all-German parliament. The East German elections in March showed little support for Genscher's party, which may have trouble in December winning the necessary percentage of votes to stay in the Bundestag. Ironically, by laying the foundation for unification, Genscher has inadvertently made his political survival a good deal dicier...
WORLD: After cutting a deal with Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl ascends to the diplomatic mountaintop...