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Article: Bonn or Berlin? Capital vote begins today
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1991
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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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