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- <title>
- Apr. 23, 1990: All In A Day's Work
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 23, 1990 Dan Quayle:No Joke
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- All in a Day's Work
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- <body>
- <p> East Germany's first freely elected parliament got down to
- business last week after approving a new noncommunist coalition
- government. In the space of six hours the legislators:
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- <p>-- Apologized to the world's Jews for the Holocaust,
- promised them reparations and resolved to seek diplomatic
- relations with Israel.
- </p>
- <p>-- Recognized the legitimacy of Poland's postwar borders.
- </p>
- <p>-- Expressed remorse for East Germany's role in the
- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- </p>
- <p>-- Endorsed the rapid unification of the two Germanys.
- </p>
- <p>-- Agreed that a united Germany should be a member of NATO
- until a new European security system evolves.
- </p>
- <p>-- Elected Lothar de Maiziere, the Christian Democratic
- leader, as Prime Minister.
- </p>
- <p> The speedy pace was understandable, since the parliament
- will dissolve after the Germanys are merged. "There is an inner
- tension in playing the role of liquidator," said De Maiziere.
- "One of the psychological challenges I face is to take
- responsibility for an office which will become superfluous."
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- </body>
- </article>
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