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Over the past 15 years, arms exports outside the Warsaw Pact have earned Czechoslovakia an average of $850 million annually in cash or such essential raw materials as oil and mineral ores; additional revenues flow in from the sale of ammunition. All told, the arms trade accounts for a quarter to a half of Czechoslovakia's foreign exchange earnings. Havel said last week his country would continue to sell arms to democracies but not to totalitarian regimes. However, cautions Foreign Ministry spokesman Lubos Dobrovsky, "we have existing obligations that we must honor...
...dispute that illustrates how quickly old apprehensions are resurfacing. Alarmed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl's ambiguity about the status of postwar German-Polish borders along the so-called Oder- Neisse line, the Poles demanded a seat at the table for discussions of their frontiers. Paris and London backed Warsaw -- something that sounded depressingly reminiscent...
...turn a mere legalism into votes. He insisted that the boundaries of postwar Poland, a third of which comprises former German territory, could be finally accepted only by a unified Germany. Kohl never really questioned Poland's borders; they have already been guaranteed by a treaty between Bonn and Warsaw. It was Kohl's lack of sensitivity that upset so many Germans and foreigners. In his effort to retain political support from survivors and families of some 12 million Germans expelled from the eastern regions of the old Reich, Kohl was willing to stoke an international controversy and hand ammunition...
Time and again, Polish leaders emphasized the depth of that worry. Last week Mazowiecki said Poland would prefer to have "only its own armed forces on its territory." But Polish membership in the Warsaw Pact, he added, "is important for the security of our borders." Bronislaw Geremek, parliamentary leader of Solidarity, puts it more bluntly: "The only way to change the border...
...that 78% of West Germans and 75% of East Germans favor unification. But taken together with earlier actions, they fueled fears that Kohl may be pushing for unification too quickly, largely to serve his own political ambitions, while riding roughshod over the legitimate concerns of Germany's neighbors. In Warsaw, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki renewed his demand last week for a direct Polish role in any international discussions over Germany's future. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reluctantly agreed that the two Germanys had a "right to unity," but maintained that "our country should not sustain either moral or political...