Word: neutral
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Even the caretaker Communist-led government in East Berlin, which previously argued for a separate socialist existence in some kind of confederal relationship, has thrown in its hand. Unification is possible, Prime Minister Hans Modrow says, but only if the newly formed state remains neutral, unaffiliated with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Bonn and its allies reject that idea but counter with one presented by Genscher. A unified Germany should remain in NATO, he proposed, but allied troops or military structures should stay out of the areas that are now East Germany. In Moscow...
Moscow still stands behind Modrow's demand for neutrality, but it also wants to reconvene the 35-nation Helsinki Conference this year to produce a treaty that would legally end World War II and guarantee all existing 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...
...plant near Zaragoza, Spain, to its aging Vauxhall factories in Luton and Ellesmere Port, England. Before the reorganization, GM Europe was very much a West German-led company. The first goal of the restructuring was to broaden its character, so in 1986 the company moved its headquarters to neutral Zurich. There an amazingly lean head-office staff proceeded to coax the diverse GM Europe factions into cooperating with one another by sharing parts and services. Engineering and design staff were centered in Russelsheim, West Germany...
...Federal Republic. Since full monetary union is the capstone, not the cornerstone, of any economic union, Kohl's proposal is at least partly exhortatory. It is consistent with his view that unification must mean the incorporation of East Germany into the European Community, not the creation of a neutral Fourth Reich. What is remarkable is the rush. Kohl has obviously become convinced that without visible assurances of unification, East Germany will simply empty itself westward...
...German nation," he said. Modrow unveiled a four-step process for the gradual merger of the two Germanys' economies, legal systems and governments that closely paralleled the plan presented in December by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, except on one critical point. Modrow unequivocally called for a neutral Germany, demanding that both states "detach themselves" from their respective military alliances...