Article: Bonn or Berlin? Capital vote begins today

BERLIN -- The wife of Chancellor Helmut Kohl has already gone house-hunting, Berlin newspapers report hopefully. She'd like to move into the former palace of the crown prince of Imperial Germany, in what used to be East Berlin.

Meanwhile, in Bonn, city officials are planning a grand beer-and-sausage bash in the main square. The whole city -- 300,000 people -- has been invited tonight to celebrate what everyone is sure will be the ratification of Bonn as Germany's capital.

After 45 years of division and 20 months of relentless politicking, Germans are still squabbling about where to put their capital city. When the German Parliament begins voting today on

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