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Last week's agreement between the two countries to start immediate negotiations to replace the East German ostmark with the West German deutsche mark provided the starkest reminder yet of the downside of unification. The immediate aim of the monetary union is to stanch the East German stampede to the West, which continues at the rate of 2,000 a day. The theory is that if Easterners were more confident about their country's economic future, they would be less prone to flee. The first step in that process is to replace East Germany's funny money with West Germany...
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government, wary of calling too brazenly for unification, urged another formulation. East Berlin, he suggested, should declare that a federal state binding together the two Germanys is the goal of both countries. That, West German officials felt, might help reassure would-be immigrants and stanch the flow...
...Government developed AIDS to wipe out blacks, testing it on homosexuals before unleashing it in the ghetto. More widespread is the view, put forth by Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, that genocide will inevitably occur because the U.S. Government is not doing enough to stanch the flow of drugs. Says Lowery: "If the powers that be really wanted to deal with this issue, they wouldn't have let it get this...
Even with American cooperation, that vision could prove elusive. The aging revolutionaries who dominate Viet Nam's 13-member Politburo are largely uneducated and rigidly dogmatic. They resist the creative solutions of younger technocrats and refuse to countenance the kind of political renovation that might stanch the flow of tens of thousands of refugees each year. Like the Chinese, they continue to believe that economic miracles are possible without political reform. "The Old Guard was good for war," says a Foreign Ministry official, "but not for peacetime Viet...
...refugees testify to a disillusionment with the rigid rule of East German President Erich Honecker, 77, who seems to offer no hope of future change. Most of them are young people, skilled workers or university-trained specialists. As yet, Honecker has done nothing to stanch the flow. One joke making the rounds last week asked, "Why will Honecker abolish East German identity cards by 1990?" The answer: "Because by then, Honecker will be personally acquainted with all the remaining citizens...