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Such feelings did not exist, or were not visible, before unification, when all but the iron-minded leaders in the east accepted that the two German states were culturally one nation. "For 40 years we did not talk about differences, only about similarities," says Volker Ronge, a sociologist at the University of Wuppertal. "We were all Germans together, and we thought we would be able to understand each other perfectly. But now we realize that the influence of Western values here, and of Stalinism there, created differences that will last a long time...
...HANDMAID'S TALE. Set in a political and sexual dictatorship of the near future, this anti-fundamentalist fable carries a heady pedigree: screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Margaret Atwood novel. But a fine cast is zombified under Volker Schlondorff's drab direction...
After 7 1/2 hours of discussion, the conferees announced that they had agreed to invite the Poles to join in when the meetings focus on the Oder- Neisse line. In a belated attempt to reassure other Europeans who feel stampeded by the rush to unification, Volker Ruhe, general secretary of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, said the process was so complex that it might take two to three years to complete. A single state would not be achieved, he said, "as long as the external questions are not settled...
...public feud over the plant that Kohl carried on with Washington for nearly two weeks seemed to gather strength from other issues. These include U.S. pressure to continue low-flying Air Force exercises over West German territory, despite several accidents that have claimed civilian lives. Said Volker Ruhe, deputy parliamentary leader of Kohl's Christian Democratic Party: "These shrill tones show that the ice has become much thinner...
...ever the special, or even sole, Soviet target. West Germans suggest two ideas: 1) demand that the Soviets destroy ^ many of their under-300-mile-range missiles as well as longer-range types; 2) condition a missile deal on a Soviet commitment to reduce conventional forces in Europe. Says Volker Ruhe, a Bundestag expert on defense policy and adviser to Kohl: "Things are too much concentrated on solely nuclear issues." Tying missile negotiations to conventional-arms cuts, however, risks drawing out the nuclear talks forever. U.S.-Soviet negotiations on conventional-force reductions in Europe have been droning on in Vienna...