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Article: Honecker Visit to Bonn Yields Modest Results; No Breakthrough on Berlin Wall, Shootings
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- The Washington Post
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- September 9, 1987
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The two Germanys agreed today to intensify bilateral contacts in
fields such as travel and sports, but they achieved no breakthroughs
on major human rights or disarmament issues at the end of the
official portion of the landmark visit to West Germany by East German
chief of state Erich Honecker.
A joint communique, issued after more than 12 hours of talks
between Honecker and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, made clear
that the talks had lived up to their advance billing of being
important primarily as a symbolic gesture of good will between the
two German states.
Honecker agreed to try to do more to make it easier for East
Germans to travel to the West. His communist government also ...