Word: unificationism
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As German unification barrels down the express track, one thing might slow it: Moscow's ever louder refusal to countenance one Germany in NATO. Last week's summit underscored the Soviet Union's deep wariness of its former enemy and its difficulty digesting the fact that East Germans will wind...
To help Moscow see that light, Kohl has been energetically pursuing private bilateral dealings with the Soviets, along with formal negotiations. At last month's Two-plus-Four negotiations -- the unification talks involving the two Germanys and the four Allied victors of World War II -- Kohl huddled with Soviet Foreign...
Many foreign policy experts are convinced that Moscow will negotiate furiously for economic and security assurances before approving unification. Germany can offer technology, loans and credits that would give a crucial boost to the disintegrating Soviet economy. For its part, Bonn is quick to deny it is trying to appease...
This time nobody could pretend that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were determining the future of the world. That is, frankly, beyond their control. There was a sense in Washington of the leaders' looking over their shoulders -- to Bonn, where Helmut Kohl is marching Germany toward unification; to Moscow, where...
Some credit Kohl for avoiding long, protracted processes that could stall the unification process and lead to further instability.