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...inter-German border, a zone that Honecker ordered fortified with mines and trip-wired "scatter guns" in the 1970s. The communist leader's extradition was the result of months of arduous negotiations between Germany, Russia and Chile, and it finally came about after personal talks between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Chilean President Patricio Aylwin. The trial is unlikely to start until October at the earliest, but many fear it could prove politically messy, even stirring up unwanted memories of the Nuremberg trials. Meanwhile, newly discovered East German military files reveal that at least 350 people, double the previously known...
...tossed out a novel idea for paring down his country's crushing $70 billion foreign debt. He would trade property -- land, factories, warehouses, oil and mining concessions -- to Western investors, government and private, that would in turn cancel Moscow's debts to them. The seven offered what German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called an extended breathing space. No details, but probably Russia can wangle a two-year moratorium during which it pays only interest on its loans...
...LINEUP OF WORLD LEADERS WILL include Prime Minister John Major, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and, now that he has finally made up his mind to go, President George Bush. The Dalai Lama will join a delegation of clerics, artists and green-minded parliamentarians. Hundreds of native leaders, from American Indians to Malaysian tribesmen, will represent the interests of the world's indigenous peoples. Tens of thousands of diplomats, scientists, ecologists, theorists, feminists, journalists, tourists and assorted hangers-on are expected to gather in dozens of auditoriums and outdoor sites for nearly 400 official and unofficial events, among...
...issues the confrontation presented, however, were absolutely basic. Would German workers accept the government's call to continue making sacrifices in order to help westernize eastern Germany? The answer so far is no. The public workers' union demanded a 9.5% wage increase while the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl argued that anything over 4.8%, or just enough to cover the inflation rate, would damage the economy. Last week the government was forced to offer 5.4%. The union leadership accepted, and chairwoman Monika Wulf-Mathies called it "a political victory." Minister of Special Tasks Rudolf Seiters, the government's chief negotiator...
...civic disorder, when garbage collectors, transport workers and other public employees walked off their jobs in the longest and most acrimonious strike since the end of World War II. Streets stank, planes didn't fly, traffic snarled. In the end the workers prevailed, forcing the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl to surrender to a 5.4% pay raise. It was less than the unions wanted but more than Kohl felt Germany could afford...