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...press was among the first to benefit when freedom came to East Germany. Censorship fell with the Wall. Hard-line editors retired or were fired. The dull, gray Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland, so lickspittle that it once published 26 photos of Erich Honecker in a single edition, lightened up with a fresh design and uncensored stories. The daily Berliner Zeitung shed its communist ties and became East Berlin's liveliest and most popular newspaper. Junge Welt, once a loyal youth tabloid, turned muckraker overnight...
...circulation was 1 million in 1989," says Reiner Oschmann, of Neues Deutschland. "Now it is half a million. I'm surprised that we managed to keep even that many, and we expect to have a further decline...
...that is trying to save the paper, but concedes that the job is nearly hopeless. ND's power in the past was based on its status as a party organ. "The circulation was artificially high in the old days," Oschmann says. "It was thought 'fit' to subscribe to Neues Deutschland even if it was never read. That, thank God, is no longer the case...
...nuclear arsenal. The same anxiety motivates Czechoslovakia's playwright-President Vaclav Havel, Poland's Solidarity Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and many politicians in Western Europe. If they accept Bush's idea of NATO uber alles, it will be as a hedge against the resurgence of a malevolent Deutschland. But will the government and citizens of a unified Germany accept that idea? Will they want to be forever, or even for long, members of an alliance whose purpose, unstated but unmistakable, is not to protect them from others but to protect others from them? If that is the German Question...
...drive Modrow out of the Central Committee. What they found was an incorrupt politician who worked hard, lived modestly and jogged six miles every day. "The Old Guard hated him because he was so unlike them," said Reiner Oschmann, deputy editor of the once mighty party daily, Neues Deutschland. "He did not preach water and drink wine, as they did." While Modrow built an admirably efficient electronics industry in Dresden, top party leaders feared his popularity and resented his failure to render the obsequious flattery that they had come to expect from underlings...