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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Helmut Kohl in Bonn and Prime Minister Lothar de Maziere in East Berlin are pressing full speed ahead. Kohl in particular is determined, as he puts it, "not to miss the unification train, which may not come another time." With a large majority in both Germanys supporting merger -- even though there are some reservations as to speed and cost -- the Chancellor is planning to hold all- German elections in early December...
...suspicions about Germany's future is, of course, its dark past, namely the crimes committed during the twelve-year reign of Adolf Hitler. Hitler, after all, did not commit those crimes by himself; other Germans piloted the bombers over Warsaw, and other Germans operated the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Though the majority of today's Germans were not even born when those crimes were committed, the nation remains tainted by the Nazi legacy that endures in the world's memory...
...organizations upset at Mandela's tendency to equate the black South African struggle with that of Palestinians and at his warm words for Arafat. Before the scheduled visit, Harry Belafonte and Roger Wilkins, officials of the Mandela welcome committee, arranged for Jewish leaders to meet with Mandela in Geneva. Though he succeeded in mollifying some of them by acknowledging Israel's right to exist, more militant Jews went away from the talks still intent on staging protests during his visit because of his insistence that Israel should return to its pre-1967 borders. What finally assured the harmony that prevailed...
...looks as if Kohl's Great Historic Moment has been rather brief. A bit of schadenfreude may be in order, though the entertainment value of our family squabble is in rapid decline. The truth of the matter is that the Germans have acquired a normality bordering on the tedious. They have become a nation of successful shopkeepers, incapable of a greatness that the world, in any case, is better off without...
...their fields. Some other machine and machine-tool companies get good marks from Western bankers, including the Fritz Heckert plant in Chemnitz and parts of the October 7 group like the Niles gear-grinding machine company that had its origins in Niles, Ohio. The list of the tigers, though, is far shorter than the list of the dogs...