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...Elected Lothar de Maiziere, the Christian Democratic leader, as Prime Minister...
That is the conclusion reached by Lothar de Maiziere, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, who is likely to become East Germany's Prime Minister when a newly convened parliament forms a government next week. For the post of Economics Minister, De Maiziere has designated Elmar Pieroth, a + prominent economist in West Germany and stalwart of that country's CDU. "De Maiziere told me he sought an experienced market economist and couldn't find one in a planned economy -- would I give it a try?" says Pieroth. "I said...
...further rocked last week by the old apparat. Three days after the election, CDU leader Lothar de Maiziere was accused of cooperating with the Stasi, the despised state security police under the old regime. The information came from the same sources who had supplied the documents that destroyed the brief political career of Wolfgang Schnur, leader of the small Democratic Awakening, a partner in the CDU alliance. Schnur resigned when the reports charging that he had provided information to the Stasi about his dissident clients proved true...
...optimists believe economic progress will inevitably provoke political progress. "If economic reform works," says Franz-Lothar Altmann, deputy director of the Sudost Institut in Munich, "it will legitimize political change." The eventual goal is a gradual Finlandization in which certain bloc countries move toward Western-style market economies and adopt the political democratization that goes with them, reducing the adversarial nature of the East-West relationship...
...universities, many are expected to bypass teaching in favor of better-paying jobs in private industry. In West Germany, on the other hand, 40,000 teachers are unemployed, many of them qualified in math and science. This imbalance gave University of Georgia History Professor and German Emigre Lothar Tresp an idea. Why not use one country's surplus to offset the other's shortage? Earlier this year Tresp made contact with Georg-Berndt Oschatz, education minister in Lower Saxony. Oschatz had already begun to make inquiries about job possibilities in the U.S. for the 6,000 unemployed teachers...