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...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 of bilateral and multilateral talks in side rooms, corridors and hotel suites. They focused on how to impose order on the rush toward unification and reassure the nations that are most unsettled...
Forty-five years after the end of World War II, no peace treaty has been signed between Germany and the four Allied powers that conquered the country. As a result, the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union to this day retain remnants of the rights they exercised as occupying forces. This is why World War II's Big Four will now serve as midwife to the unification of Germany...
...saying he would accept either 195,000 or 225,000 for both sides. Whatever the final total, Gorbachev made it plain he agrees with Bush that the changes in Eastern Europe allow sizable reductions in forces. But he also in effect accepted Bush's premise that the U.S. should retain a large military presence in Europe...
Thompson, who rode a wave of anti-Graham sentiment to a narrow victory in the Democratic primary in Cambridge's 28 Middlesex District, may now face a tough battle to retain his seat, which represents Riverside, Cambridgeport, Agassiz, MIT and parts of Harvard...
Many Germans were also outraged to learn that the U.S. military is free to tap German telephone lines without court orders or even the knowledge of the Bonn government. The Allies retain the right to impose death sentences, control inter-German airspace and veto West German decisions concerning Berlin. The rights are resented even if they go unused, as has been the case with death sentences, and more so when used, as happened in 1988 when a U.S. eavesdropping operation exposed the fact that a West German firm was helping build a poison-gas plant in Libya...