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...between the Soviet Union and the U.S. that will allow 30,000 more American troops than Soviet ones to be stationed in Europe was announced last week in what has become standard fashion in the fast-moving Gorbachev era: a casual aside. During a discussion about German unification in Ottawa, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze interrupted himself, looked across the table at U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and said, "Oh, by the way." Shevardnadze then proceeded to report that Moscow had approved George Bush's plan that would permit the two superpowers to maintain 195,000 troops each...
Since that wall was breached in November, German unification has usually been described as inevitable. Now it is considered imminent. NATO and Warsaw Pact Foreign Ministers gathered last week in Ottawa to discuss and quickly agree to Open Skies, a newly revived Eisenhower-era proposal that will allow unarmed planes to monitor military activities throughout the two alliances. Even as the formal meetings were going on, ministers of the two Germanys and the four victorious Allies of World War II, which retain some legal rights in Germany because no peace treaty has ever been signed, ran an almost continuous series...
...doubts the right of Germans to self-determination," said Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Ottawa last week. "But Germany's neighbors are entitled to guarantees that a united Germany will not be a threat to them, that it will not seek to revise European borders and that it will not see a rebirth of Nazism and fascism...
West German officials have presented a strong defense of their motives and tried to put down the fears emanating from East and West. "We are aware of the historical dimension of this process," Genscher said in Ottawa, and that includes "remembering all the suffering inflicted on other nations in the name of Germany. We seek unification in the context of integration in the European Community, East-West partnership for stability, the building of a common European home and the creation of a peaceful order throughout Europe." Genscher joined with Shevardnadze in quoting Thomas Mann: "We seek a European Germany...
...Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...