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- WORLD, Page 31World NotesTHE GERMANYSSpeeding Up The Clock
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- The headlong rush toward unification picked up still more
- speed last week as East German Prime Minister Lothar de
- Maiziere urged that all-German elections be moved up from Dec.
- 2 to Oct. 14. De Maiziere's appeal came just one day after the
- two Germanys signed a treaty for the first free all-German vote
- in 57 years. De Maiziere explained that October elections would
- encourage West German investment in East Germany's floundering
- economy. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl welcomed the
- proposal, which will improve the chances of the Christian
- Democrats, the party of both the Chancellor and De Maiziere,
- since the opposition will have less time to organize.
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- At the same time, Bonn's Defense Minister announced that
- West German officers would take charge of East German troops
- in a united army. Negotiators from the two Germanys also agreed
- last week that Berlin would be the capital of a unified
- Germany.
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