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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Jan. 9, 1994
Break in Berlin Wall Spurs German Hope
BONN—(UPI)—The Christmas pass agreement in divided Berlin may lead to a new era of direct talks between East and West Germany, diplomatic sources said today.
The United States would approve such talks if they showed promise of achieving German reunification, the sources said.
Until now such political negotiations have been conducted by Russia and the Western Allies—the United States, Britain and France—which occupied Germany after World War II. The Western powers do not recognize East Germany.
Washington feels that a West German offer to grant East Germany trading credits in return for a renewal of the pass agreement is a technical and purely German affair, and should be negotiated by the West and East Germans without the Allies and Russia.
The holiday pass agreement raised hopes among Germans for increased contacts and travel between the Western and Communist zones of both Germany and the divided city of Berlin, located 110 miles inside Communist territory.
During the 17 days the agreement was in effect, West Germans were allowed to make 1.2 million visits into East Berlin for reunions with relatives and friends. It was the first time the Communists permitted West Berliners to cross through the anti-refugee wall since the barrier was erected in August, 1961.
The Western Allies and the Bonn government were said to be firmly opposed to a Communist proposal that West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt hold high-level talks with East Germans on an extension of the pass agreement. But talks between West German and East German officials were not ruled out.
Bonn and the Allies consider West Berlin part of the West German Federal Republic and reject any move that would lend weight to the Communist theory of "three Germanys," including West Berlin as a separate entity.
Regarding direct talks between East and West Germany, U.S. political authorities here were said to agree with Brandt's view that times have changed and that it is no longer Western policy to reject everything except Communist capitulation.
Diplomatic sources said American political experts believe the Christmas agreement did not affect the security of West Berliners, or enhance the international status of the East German regime, or restrict the viability of West Berlin or its lifelines to the West.
The sources said the pass agreement involved only technical details which can be handled by the Germans without intervention by the Russians or the Western Allies.
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Crusaders for Christ To Hear Anesthetist
A Kansas City anesthetist will speak at a meeting of the Campus Crusade for Christ at 9 p.m. today in the Meadowlark Room of the Kansas Union. Dr. Bert Harned, the speaker, is chairman of the Kansas City Campus Crusade board.
KU Graduate's Record Flight Not All Roses
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—(UPI)—Rookie X-15 pilot Joe Engle said today he might have been "in serious trouble" if he had been flying higher in space when he ran into a series of nerve-shattering mishaps.
Engle was graduated from KU in aeronautical engineering in 1956. He returned to KU last spring for the Engineering Exhibition.
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The 31-year-old Air Force captain, making only his third X-15 flight yesterday, was forced to ask a ground control station for flying instructions when he was blinded by a blazing sun and the automatic guidance system in the rocket ship failed.
A BRIEF FIRE also flared in an engine of the huge BS2 bomber which carried him aloft for air-launch, and a second engine was shut down in an emergency action to prevent a possible explosion.
However, Engle landed safely after the troublesome flight in which he flew faster than five times the speed of sound—3,716 miles an hour—and to a peak altitude of 139,500 feet—about 27 miles.
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