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Show Thursday, February 15, 1990 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, - Page Pact gives international acceptance to ongoing process - WEST BERLIN (AP) The Ottawa agreement on German unification provides the decisive international acceptance for a process that is a'ready well under way inside the two neighboring countries. From business ventures to television programming and vacation travel, the two states have been coming closer together in hundreds of ways each day. "What belongs together will " former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is fond of saying. And Germans in both east and west have accepted the inevitability of a rapid unification since the Berlin Wall opened Nov. 9. grow-togethe- Serious obstacles remain in making a single nation, with its citizens carrying the same passports, paying with the same currency and in the same serving armed forces. From an international standpoint, the most serious obstacle may be the military stance of a united Germany. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has said NATO membership for a united Germany is "not acceptable," the official East German news agency ADN said. side-by-si- ADN stressed that discussions about unification "will also include the questions of security of neighboring states." "Socialism and rapitalibtn-eanbe united than fire and waGerman leader Erter," then-Eaich Honecker said during a 1987 visit to Bonn. While much of what the hard-line- r did and said has been ridiculed, there may be a good deal of truth in his metaphor. East German industry the part is a product that is still running of heavy-handecentral planning from East Berlin. West Germans say that leads to inefficiency and slowness to change, even in such simple ways as adapting to the latest fashions. Most East Germans are also acso- customed to a cradle-to-grav- e Still mindful of the horrors "of "the" Nazi aggression, East Germany's Communists are seeking assurances that conservatives in Bonn have given up any designs on former lands that now belong to Poland. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said his country has no intention of seeking to regain any lands that were part of prewar Germany. The Ottawa agreement sets the stage for a virtual revolution the first redrawing of European national boundaries since World War II. It was a step that only recently many had never expected could happen. Internally, there are still numerous questions to be answered. d umu ml rnnnnt very little to individual has left choice. Housing, clothing and public prices transportation at are almost a compensation for the hundreds of daily sacrifices East Germans have had to make. Meshing the economies will be a daunting task and will cost billions of dollars. West Germany has one of the most efficient economies in the world, but East Germany's economy has been going downhill since rock-botto- the 1960s. West Germany has strict factory safety measures and a vocal Greens Party to help enforce envi- - . ronment regulations. Much of A7 coal-- . dependent East Germany is an ecological nightmare, dangerously polluted. Other problems loom as well. "These East Germans come over here and get a lot of handouts from the government," grouses one businesswoman in the prosperpous Frankfurt suburb of Koenigstein. -But they never saw that much money in their life." Many East Germans, the elderly especially, also worry that the thousands of marks they stashed away in bank accounts will be worthless once the mighty West German mark swallows up its weak Drugs: (Continued from Page A6) but not everyone has turned against drugs. 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The Supreme Court last year upg held many plans imon government workers, and posed Congress is considering legislation that would set federal standards for drug testing by private businesses. The Drug Enforcement Administration and its task forces involving state and local officials hit new cocaine seizure records in fiscal 1989, which ended Sept. 31. The 81,762 kilograms of cocaine seized including 20 tons found at a Los Angeles warehouse in September reflected a 43 percent increase over the 57,114 kilos seized in 1988, said DEA spokesman Frank Shults. Nevertheless, Shults said there is "no indication that the flow (of drugs into the United States) has decreased." "Our next report is going to show an increase in the price of cocaine, but I don't think it's going to be major," he said. Meanwhile, DEA seizures of assets bought with drug money zoomed to almost $974 million in 1989, a 45 percent increase over the almost $ff9 million taken in 1988, Shults said. Seizures of other drugs dropped in 1989, however: Heroin busts decreased to 770.4 kilos from 829.4 kilos in 1988; methamphetamine and hallucinogen seizures dropped to 108.4 million dosage units from 114.1 million units, and marijuana dropped to 335,041 kilos from 602,1 kilos. DEA officials noted that the 1989 heroin and dangerous drug seizures still were far higher than in 1987, when agents captured only 364.7 kilos of heroin and 34 million dosage units of dangerous drugs. Heroin, although recently overshadowed by cocaine, is more plentiful and potent than ever before, wholesale prices have dropped and officials are concerned about huge crops overseas. Black tar heroin caused havoc in San Francisco last fall, in one weekend killing three users and sending dozens to hospitals with drug-testin- problems ranging from broken Hestfonn ' purcha.-bra. Then x nd your alon with T.")0 and handlini:. and reecle tin I'lUrth one FREE' Just either have been . bones to brain damage. 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