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DATE: THURSDAY, March 8, 1990                   TAG: 9003081802
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: EAST BERLIN                                LENGTH: Short

MODROW AGREEABLE TO POLISH BORDER PACT

Premier Hans Modrow said Wednesday that East Germans are ready to sign a border treaty with Poland, and he criticized West Germany for trying to impose a hasty unity plan on his people.

In Bonn, opposition Social Democrats, who also charge Kohl is pushing too hard for a speedy unification, insisted on a Germany-wide referendum over the issue.

Modrow's concerns over unification echoed those of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who on Tuesday urged a slow and careful approach and said NATO membership for a united Germany was "out of the question."

At the last parliamentary session before East Germans go to the polls on March 18, Modrow sought to assure Poland that his nation lays no claim to German lands forfeited after the Nazi defeat in 1945. About one third of modern-day Poland was German land under the Third Reich. - Associated Press 


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