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...problem, it's another. After surrendering his party's monopoly , on power last week, Mikhail Gorbachev turned his attention to a separate issue that he and his countrymen find painful: the incipient unification of Germany. On Saturday West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived in Moscow for two hours of talks with the Soviet President. Emerging from their meeting, Kohl declared that Gorbachev had promised to respect a united Germany. Kohl and his Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, said a plan for unification, in concert with France, Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, would be ready by this year...
...Germany should once again become the united fatherland of all the citizens of the German nation," he said. Modrow unveiled a four-step process for the gradual merger of the two Germanys' economies, legal systems and governments that closely paralleled the plan presented in December by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, except on one critical point. Modrow unequivocally called for a neutral Germany, demanding that both states "detach themselves" from their respective military alliances...
Fears of unrest were also sounded in Bonn, where authorities are worried about ferment within East Germany and the continuing tide of immigrants to the West, which is still running at about 2,000 a day. A top official of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government, wary of calling too brazenly for unification, urged another formulation. East Berlin, he suggested, should declare that a federal state binding together the two Germanys is the goal of both countries. That, West German officials felt, might help reassure would-be immigrants and stanch the flow...
...Paris last week, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said soothingly that "the Germans have no intention of provoking in the Europe of the future a discussion about frontiers" that would disrupt the Continent. But he again stopped short of saying Bonn has no territorial claims against Poland, insisting that he could not speak for both German states on the issue. With a national election in December, he apparently does not want to risk losing votes to the ultra-right-wing Republican Party...
...American, the biggest surprise is to hear Germans speak with fear of Germany. "Helmut Kohl said a united Germany is a capitalist Germany. But a capitalist Germany is a dangerous Germany for Europe," Reimund continues. "Because the power is so big that people in other countries say this country, this united Germany, is a danger for peace in Europe. Because the history in this country was capitalism. A big, powerful Germany is an aggressive capitalism...