Moreover, the willingness of the Soviets to fulfill their obligations to withdraw their military personnel entirely from Czechoslovakia may diminish in the course of Moscow's present campaign against a reunified Germany being aligned with the West.

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In addition we should forcefully advocate the kind of intervention that ultimately brought down the Berlin Wall in 1989: East Germany's neighbors, particularly Czechoslovakia and Hungary, made it clear that East Germans could use their countries as transit points to get to West Germany.

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