BONN, West Germany Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government lateThursday salvaged a treaty that lays the legal basis for German unityafter Kohl agreed to compromises on abortion rights and handling ofsecret police files.
The treaty will be signed Friday in East Berlin by the twonations' interior ministers.
Kohl on Wednesday talked lawmakers from his coalition intobending to the Social Democrats' demand that West German women not beprosecuted for seeking abortions in East Germany after unity.
The two Germanys also agreed on measures to guard againstpotential blackmailers gaining access to sensitive documents compiledby East Germany's secret police.
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