European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                If a cyclist rides along the Berlin Wall in the Kreiberg District of West Berlin. Now there s renewed talk of tearing Down the 104.08-mile Wall that divides the City. The German question reunification coming closer ? by Kevin Costelloe associated press free decades ago. A West German politician said German reunification was a sleeping lioness that would awake one Day with a mighty Roar. Now there is growing speculation the Awakening May be at hand to create a giant political and economic machine thai could dominate Europe. Reunification is coming closer but i can t say whether it will take 10 15 or 20  says West German conservative lawmaker Eduard Lintner. We have the impression that things Are much More Concrete Nan we could have imagined live years ago " the daily sight of thousands of refugees fleeing East German Leader Erich Honecker s hard line communist Rule Lor the capitalist West has revived International interest in inc debate once dismissed As a nostalgic daydream the idea of Gorman reunification has gotten a Public nod from president Bush and something Short of a categorical no from president Mikhail s Gorbachev of the soviet Union. The idea makes East German leaders virtually apoplectic. If there were a free Choice under the present circumstances in the German democratic Republic East German certainly 80 percent to 90 percent would vote Tor National reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany added the 44-year-old Lintner in an interview. The West German Constitution Calls Lor a United Germany but it has not been a Paramount concern of the West germans in the years since the ruins of a new East German watchtower on the Border. Page 14 the stars and stripes nazi Germany were divided into East and West at the end of world War ii. Full National reunification would completely rework the postwar european order mapped out by the conquering allies. It is a Prospect that creates unease in Britain and France and in Poland in the East bloc. London s prestigious sunday times on sept. 10 mapped out a possible scenario that includes massive troop reductions in Europe Honecker s death and further westernization of Poland and Hungary Moscow unilaterally abolishes the Warsaw pact after guarantees from Poland and Hungary they will not join other  the times futuristic View continued. West Germany withdraws from nato and a referendum in both East and West Germany Voles for reunification and  that sort of talk is being heard More and More As Moscow loosens its hold on the East bloc and countries like the soviet Union Poland and Hungary explore democratic reforms. The implications of pulling Down the Berlin Wall and other barriers to link the two German states Are enormous and Lor Many ominous. As much of Western Europe Heads toward its own unification in 1992, the economic Center of Gravity would be shifted even further to the German Side with a powerhouse of nearly 80 million people 61.1 million West germans and 16.6 million East germans. West Germany is already Europe s largest exporting nation and despite its Many flaws East Germany s Economy is the envy of Many soviet bloc neighbors. A unified Germany could become the political focal Point of a continent already in flux As democratic movements sweep parts of the soviet bloc. Older generations recall eerie echoes of nazi dictator Adolf Hitler s boasting thai he had brought saturday sept