OTHER NEWS - Sept. 28, 1992

Germany Proposes Two-Track Path to European Unity: Support for two-track European unity may be growing in Germany as leading politicians floated the idea of countries in the fast lane pressing ahead with a monetary union on their own. “I have for a long time seen this as an option that we probably will have to resort to,” said Karl Lamers, foreign policy spokesman in parliament for Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democrats. “It is difficult to imagine that we could achieve monetary union with all 12 within the time limit.” He said Germany, France and the Benelux states--and possibly Denmark--could form a monetary union because the Maastricht treaty on European union implicitly contained the option.