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...HELMUT KOHL has a bone to pick with BORIS YELTSIN. As the largest contributor of economic aid so far to the troubled republics, Germany is just a tad ticked off by U.S. intelligence reports that the old Soviet Union continues to briskly manufacture nuclear weapons. Among them are SS-18s, SS- 25s and SS-24s traditionally aimed at Western Europe. How come? Maybe no one remembered to tell the factories to stop. Whatever the explanation, Chancellor Kohl intends to do something about it. While he will continue providing emergency rations to the republics this winter, Germany may halt financing...
...retirement pay. A letter from a West German retiree to one of Heinrich's co-defendants, border guard Andreas Kuhnpast, cynically recalled the Nazi trials. "Hold your head up high," it said. "Once again they're trying to hang the small fry and let the big shots run." Chancellor Helmut Kohl voiced similar sentiments at a lunch with foreign journalists last week. Said Kohl: "While I have no sympathy for people shooting at the borders, it is insufferable that the string pullers are living comfortably and wondering how to get a pension...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl called the compromise "a great victory for German foreign policy." At the least, it spared the E.C. from an embarrassing public split, but there will undoubtedly be unpleasant repercussions for some time to come. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, evoking World War I, reminded the House of Commons that "there is a tradition of the main states of Western Europe splitting in rivalry on these Balkan questions, and this all ending up on the battlefield. I don't think that tradition is a good one." One Conservative M.P. even complained about "the overmighty...
...giant step toward monetary unity, a half step toward strengthening a separate European defense organization, and a baby step toward framing a common foreign and security policy. They also moved toward pursuing joint action in areas ranging from immigration to education and labor. "This meeting," said German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, "has resulted in the fulfillment of a dream. Further integration is now inevitable. The course is irreversible...
...meeting is up in the air. Germany and France, and most of the others, want to set a timetable for the establishment of the United States of Europe. "We want a treaty that makes clear that economic union, currency union, and political union are inevitable," German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said last week. Britain stands pretty much alone in wanting to keep final power in national government, by requiring unanimity for any joint European policy and by giving nations "opt-out" clauses in major agreements...