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West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will deliver the principle address at this year's Commencement Exercises, a source close to Kohl confirmed yesterday...
...Well, there is the memory of what happened 50 years ago, when we were occupied. But don't forget the great reconciliation between the two countries that began with Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, continued with Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt and goes on now with the friendship between Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl...
...months away, East Germans demonstrated last week that they are at one with the democratic spirit of their Western brethren. Fully 93% of the East German electorate turned out to hammer the last nail in the Communists' coffin. A three-party alliance headed by the CDU, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's sister party, shocked the supposedly front-running Social Democratic Party by winning 48% of the vote. The SPD captured only 22%. The conservative alliance fell just eight seats short of a majority in the 400-member Volkskammer, or parliament. Although that forced negotiations over the shape...
Even currency union, however, will not end East Germany's headaches. There is an evident shortage of competent non-Communists. Admits CDU spokesman Helmut Luck: "We are desperately looking for suitable people to fill top administrative posts." But it will be no easy task persuading people to take jobs in a government that is likely to disappear in a year...
...Federal Republic is already Western Europe's leading economic power. It should soon be even stronger: unification with East Germany will increase its population 27% and its gross domestic product 24%. In the near term, however, union will entail heavy expenditures for the Bonn government. Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced last week that East German marks held in private savings accounts, officially valued at about $100 billion, would be exchanged for deutsche marks on a 1-for-1 basis. Bringing the East German social and economic infrastructure up to Western standards over the next several years will require the investment...