European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes columns Marc Fisher e. Germany voters Likely to Back Quick unification on sunday Erna dict Rich will do something she has never before done in her 70 years a vote in a free election. Quot i will put a Flag out the window and go out to vote for the fastest possible Way to reunite Germany Quot Dic Tench said after attending a Campaign rally in the Central Square of Wolfen East Germany. Wolfen is a Grimy Industrial town in a Valley environmentalists consider one of the most polluted places on the Globe. Dieterich was Loo Young to vote in 1933, when East germans last chose their own leaders. That time. Germans elected the nazi parly paving the Way for Adolf hitlers dictatorship the crushing defeat of the third Reich and the establishment of communist East germans by the victorious soviet Union. Now. East germans have a Chance to Start Over. They face a bewildering ballot crowded with 35 parties most of which have almost no resources and no Way to gel their message to the country a 16 million \ overs. A few weeks ago the East German elections looked like an easy Victory for the social democrats the Only non communist party that was organized throughout the country. The social democrats had two big advantages a their Well known and respected name and their close connection to their Bonn namesake. West Germany s largest opposition party. East month polls said the social democrats would win a staggering 54 percent of the vote even in a 35-Way race. Ibrahim to chm the party Leader went around calling himself East Germany a next a and looking ahead to Quick unification with the West last a prime minister. He has t said that recently. Opinion polls have suddenly gone haywire. The lacklustre Campaign overshadowed for weeks by the Prospect of rapid absorption of East Germany into the West has suddenly picked up driven almost entirely by the Energy of the West Gorman Media and the Campaign funds of West Germany s political parties. The West German social democrats alone have sent 600,000 flyers 70,000 buttons and 100.000 slickers. Bureaucrats from both Germany began talks Friday on the details of merging the two countries West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher and numerous other Bonn leaders Are barnstorming through East Germany by helicopter each holding three four five rallies a Day. They Are All spreading the same message Only a vote for parties tied to the West German government will bring East germans the two things they most want. They arc Quick Unity and Access to Good and plentiful Western products. Dieterich plans to vote for the Alliance for Germany a coalition of three parties Allied with Kohls ruling West German Christian democrats. The Alliance slogan is a no More socialist  except for East Berlin where intellectuals and socialists complain about the highly visible West German role in the East German Campaign Bonn politicians arc embraced. Here dict Rich her daughter and several of her friends have come out to hear Genscher who grew up not far away in Halle. A the Speaks to our souls a e i Cicrich said. Quot he May work in Bonn but he comes from Here from Saxony. He a promising immediate Unity and that a the Only thing that can make life better Here. We be always identified with the West a politicians anyway. We always had to you  Quot Genscher said we re no dumber than people in the West Quot said Andreas Wilzer 31, a metalworkers. A a it a just that no one Ever asked us what we thought. I liked  like Many East germans said he initially supported the social democrats spa but changed his mind recently because Quot the spa is getting too red and in be had enough of reds in my life. With reds what you know and what you do in your life does no to matter. All they care about is if you re a party  the parties that form the Alliance for Germany and the Union of free democrats a the two groups of East German parties aligned with Bonne a ruling coalition a have been hammering away at two themes. The social democrats were never critical enough of the old communist regime they say. And if you be really had enough of a planned Economy and want to join the Market Economy of the West Why not join forces with the parties of big business in the West the pitch seems to be working in economically crumbling and ecologically devastated cities like Wolt in. The main factory in Wolfen a polyester Plant was shut Down this month after revelations that workers had been exposed to enormously High Levels of toxic chemicals at their jobs and in their drinking water Genscher a free democrats who Are aligned in the East with two other Small parties Are holding out the it he woe at Ifasi in 5miun6. Promise of a cleaner brighter life. Quot it is Spring and we Are so free a their posters exclaim Over an idyllic painting of a verdant Rainbow crowned Countryside. A a we re bowled Over a Heide Schneider id an economist said after Genscher a rousing speech. A hard times Are coming we know but then after that come Good times new jobs Money that buys  the key to All that change most people Here Are convinced is the creation of a single Germany. A i was for the spa and then i changed because the Alliance is for faster unification a said Ingrid Wurst 37, an Assembly line worker. A a it a not because Kohl is for the Alliance but because they Are the party of the Money. And we need  a new East German poll released last week shows the social. Democrats plummeting from 54 percent to 34 percent of the vote with Kohls Alliance jumping from 7 percent to 30 percent. The social democrats who also support Quick unification with the West Appeal to Many East germans As a Western aligned party that nonetheless would keep the social safety Het that made life under the communists relatively risk free but now that Bonn s Center right coalition is promising not to dispose of East germans social Security Many voters Are considering the message of countless posters speeches and to discussions in which they Are urged to vote in a government that can work hand in hand with Bonn. The shift to the Christian democrats is making Kohl a happier Man but Many East germans Are Quick to stress that the Chancellor is not their reason Tor switching. R ,. A a it a not because of Kohl but in spite of him a said Georg shuler56, an Engineer. A the just makes one big mistake after another out that Sok because we have Genscher to clean up his messes. The latest polls also show me former communists picking up some support rising from i to percent. But for Many East us mans the Only Clear task they u is to reject their former rulers n known As the party of demo Cut socialism a cosmetic change people say has fooled no one. The party a posters arc no any to be found Only in shreds. Typical crowd no one Wilt Mim even considering a vote lot i rulers of the past 40 years. On thursday Gregor Gysi. Reform communist who i Heads the rapidly Dis Nugin j party asked several of thu n e �1990 it any Asuela Sevim a it grassroots groups that Peipu ast Falls peaceful revolts in join his party in an election Tion. Less than two hours  was firmly refused. The Washington Posl