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Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble announced Kohl's change in position during a meeting of the "German Unity" committee of government ministers, according to participants who spoke later on condition of anonymity...
...most politically sensitive question concerns the millions of East Germans who rent. Wolfgang Ullmann, deputy president of the Volkskammer, the East German parliament, argues that renters should be compensated for improvements they have made to properties. Says he: "For years Western owners didn't care, and now they're back at the doorstep. Those people fled to prosperity...
...major obstacle: determining the real value of businesses. Says Wolfgang Nagel, a member of the West Berlin state government: "Compensating all these claims could lead to economic, political and social catastrophe in East Germany." Says Richard Motzsch, an expert on East German property claims at the West German Ministry for Inter-German Affairs: "Emotions are running very high on this issue, but we must be careful not to commit new injustices while trying to correct old ones...
...many East Germans, Pieroth is a trenchant symbol of an unwanted West German economic anschluss with East Germany. "The process of developing our own character won't be advanced by flying in experts with their own agendas," says Wolfgang Templin, a member of the parliament from the leftist, ecology- minded Initiative for Peace and Human Rights. To develop a free-market economy, Templin and other critics maintain, East Germany does not have to ape the economy of West Germany. But that is precisely what East Germans voted for overwhelmingly last month, Pieroth responds. Says he: "We can't dictate...
...congratulate ourselves," said Wolfgang M. Freitag, head of the fine arts library. "We're very happy that he accepted...