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...East Germany's normally stolid Neues Deutschland, it was a rare scoop. The Communist Party daily reported last week that Soviet troops were preparing to dismantle the first of 54 SS-12 nuclear missiles in East Germany that are scheduled to be scrapped under the U.S.-Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. The move came as the accord continued to meet stiff opposition during a U.S. Senate debate over its ratification...
...World War II, the victorious Allies banned Germany's national anthem, Deutschland, Deutschland uber Alles (Germany Above All) as too nationalistic. In 1952 West Germany revived the last of the anthem's three stanzas, which extols "unity and justice and freedom...
...seems? As the seven members of the East bloc military alliance prepare to renew their ties, which formally expire in May, there are signs of discord simmering beneath the pact's outward unity. One such signal flashed last week when East Germany's Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland prominently reprinted remarks by a senior Hungarian official that seemed to question Moscow's right to meddle in the internal affairs of its allies...
...last refuge of an artistic quisling. His hurtling, bullying camera captures characters in heat or dancing on the barricades taunting their Soviet godfathers. But it takes a strong subject not to be overwhelmed by Wajda's scenery-chewing style. Rolf Hochhuth's novel Eine Liebe in Deutschland offered that subject: the purging delirium of love set against the corruptive madness of Nazism...
...first, the Honecker regime tried to downplay the anti-German hysteria and even cautiously challenged Moscow with editorials in Neues Deutschland that supported a policy of detente with the West. During the past two weeks, however, the East Germans have begun to echo Moscow in accusing West Germany of "re-vanchism," the desire to restore the boundaries that existed before World War II. In Leipzig, students returning for the first day of school were asked to display pictures that they had drawn of tanks protecting their homeland from the West. Stories began to spread that Honecker would have to endure...