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Article: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS MAY PUSH INSTANT GERMAN UNITY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 6, 1990
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BONN - Signs were mounting yesterday that Social Democrats
in the two Germanys -- the second-largest party in both countries
-- may push for a unified Germany as early as this week.
Horst Ehmke, deputy chairman of the West German Social
Democrats, reportedly suggested that the East German Social
Democrats may propose instant unity at a special parliamentary
session this week.
Asked by the newspaper Bild whether the East German Social
Democrats might make such a move during the session on Wednesday in
East Berlin, Ehmke reportedly replied: "I don't know. I don't
exclude it."
The Social Democratic parties in both Germanys are in close
consultation with each other.
The East ...