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Invoking the spirit--but only some of the substance--of the Marshall Plan, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, speaking at Harvard Commencement exercises earlier this month, called for the United States to work with Germany to help Europe on its way to a "United States of Europe...
...ebullient Helmut Kohl reflects on Germany's history, Europe's future and how America fits...
...economic muscle. Neutrality is completely out of the question, say West German officials, and they will no longer seriously consider the so-called French option: membership in the political alliance but withdrawal from its military side. Despite repeated expressions of Soviet resistance, the government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is confident that Gorbachev will eventually come around. "The question of Germany's military status as a member of NATO will appear in a new light for the Soviet Union," predicts West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher...
This time nobody could pretend that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were determining the future of the world. That is, frankly, beyond their control. There was a sense in Washington of the leaders' looking over their shoulders -- to Bonn, where Helmut Kohl is marching Germany toward unification; to Moscow, where Boris Yeltsin is boosting his own brand of perestroika; even to the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, where economists track America's federal deficit as it slips further out of control. Both Presidents face more bothersome troubles at home than they have with each other...
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will have the platform to himself today as he addresses graduates, their parents and returning alumni...