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Article: German Unity Drive Poses Problems for Kohl; His Party Is Upstaged by Social Democrats
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- February 27, 1990
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As West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl pursues his drive to
achieve rapid unity between the two German states, new political and
economic problems are looming in ways that could frustrate his
burning ambition to become the first postwar leader of a unified
Germany by the end of this year.
Fresh from two days of talks about German unity with President
Bush at Camp David, Kohl was set today to plunge into a new round of
campaigning for fellow Christian Democrats in East Germany less than
three weeks before the first free elections are to be held there.
Last week, Kohl drew more than 100,000 people to hear him speak
in Erfurt, a turnout he could only dream of achieving in the West.
But ...