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Actual unification might be simpler than it appears. Article 23 of West German Basic Law, the country's constitution, provides that other German states can simply accede to the Federal Republic. Some legal experts in Bonn interpret that to mean that East Germany or its individual states can simply announce that they are joining the West. If the East were to choose the route of Article 23, the Munich daily Suddeutsche Zeitung observed, "reunification through Anschluss would hit the Federal Republic like a thunderbolt." The rest of Europe would feel...