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- <title>
- May 28, 1990: World Notes:The Germanys
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 28, 1990 Emergency!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 39
- World Notes
- THE GERMANYS
- Fuller Speed Ahead
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> As the two Germanys hurtle toward unification, politicians
- worry about how soon it should happen and who will be the
- leader of the new nation. Last week Chancellor Helmut Kohl
- urged even speedier progress, hoping to give his Christian
- Democratic Party--and Kohl--an edge. His allies proposed
- advancing the date for all-German elections to Dec. 2, 1990.
- </p>
- <p> West Germans realize that unity could cost up to $100
- billion, and East Germans are apprehensive about massive
- unemployment. Kohl wants the election to take place before
- Germans sour on the idea--or him. "Act soon," Kohl said his
- advisers told him. Added Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich
- Genscher: "History does not repeat its offers."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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