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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 24, 1984
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THE TWO GERMANYS
{PART II); THE SMOLDERING
REBELLION INSIDE EASTERN EUROPE
Despite highly vocal Soviet complaints, the precedent-shattering trip of
East German Communist party boss Erich Honecker to West Germany is still
on, for September 26-29. The visit is part of a wide-ranging series of ar
rangements between the two German states which include, on East Germany's
part, a relaxation of rules for exit visas, and the dismantling of deadly
automatic scatter guns along the border separating the countries.
Already
almost half the border has been so deactivated.
The East Germans also con
tracted to cable in West German television
to
those areas of the country-
the so-called "valleys of those who know nothing"--which have not had ac
cess to it heretofore. The price West Germany has paid for the latest round
of inter-German detente amounts to another big government-guaranteed bank
loan, this time $330 million.
The Honecker visit itself will be largely symbolic; no new breakthroughs
are expected, although there may be a call on the part of both governments
for a renunciation of the use of force by the Eastern and Western military
blocs, an attempt to revive grand-scale detente.
Honecker will not visit
Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic, since the West Germans do not re
cognize East Germany as a sovereign state.
The East German chief will visit
his homeland in the Saar. He may also go to Munich, where undoubtedly Franz
Josef Strauss will be on hand to welcome him.
The Kremlin remains highly suspicious about the visit and all that it por
tends.
It professes to see far deeper, more sinister motives behind the
growing inter-German relationship. In late July PRAVDA launched a vitriol-