Word: unificationism
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Israel harbors the deepest dread, as the collective survivor of the Holocaust that slaughtered 6 million Jews. "We cannot know where German enthusiasm may lead," Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir wrote to Kohl not long ago. "The Jewish people cannot be enthusiastic about this union." Despite a carefully nurtured reconciliation between...
At E.C. headquarters in Brussels and in capitals around the Continent there is some apprehension that after unification, Germany -- which may have to provide even more than the 28% of the E.C. budget it contributes now -- will grow tired of being the "paymaster of Europe." Moreover, Germany might concentrate on...
By refusing to guarantee the Polish borders, Kohl allowed much of the world to point the finger and say, See, there they go again. As Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki told TIME last week, "All the recent ambiguous statements on the issue have convinced us that we are correct in...
The Threat of Neutrality. One of the most unsettling aspects of unification is that it will take place in a world in flux. The cold war is ending, communism is evaporating, the alliances that kept Europe tense but predictable for four decades are losing their meaning. In that uncertain climate...
The first hints of that design will show up in the two-plus-four talks. Moscow has already indicated some of its demands: removal of all nuclear weapons from Germany, tight limitations on German armed forces, departure of all foreign troops over several years. Bonn is willing to accept most...