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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...
...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...
...victims. Says Michael Nesline of the activist group ACT UP: "We're fighting for people for whom the question of prevention is a moot point." In this regard, the movement found allies in conservative politicians who were unable to support "safe sex" education but saw AIDS research as politically neutral...
...recognize that the Soviet threat has been greatly exaggerated is not to commit the sin of "moral equivalence"; Western self-criticism about the phobias of the cold war does not imply a neutral judgment about the Soviet system. Quite the contrary: it is precisely because that system is such an abomination against basic human aspirations, against human nature itself, that much of what the West called "Soviet power" was actually Soviet weakness, and the instruments of that power could never have been all they were cracked...