A sizable minority of 600,000 Roman Catholics seeks eventual unity with the Republic of Ireland.

Mr. Kohl has announced a 10-point program toward confederation and eventual unity.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl first called for a confederation leading to eventual unity on Nov. 28.

It, too, debated the reunification question, adopting a program calling for eventual German unity in a framework of complete disarmament.

But he said those treaties did not contain the "confederative structures" that he has called for in his 10-point plan for a confederation leading to eventual unity.

"A help toward eventual unity with the Ecumenicon."

"Ecumenthusiasts" (to coin a word) seem to take for granted the eventual organic unity and communion of the great majority of the churches.

In the Senate, the eventual unity behind aid for the former Soviet Union was, as they used to say in Moscow about far more dubious propositions, a matter of historical inevitability.

He was a pan-Africanist, believing as the revered Ghanaian statesman Kwame Nkrumah did in the eventual unity of Africa - but a capitalist one.

It was carefully patterned to give equal weight to the Catholic longing in the North to pursue eventual unity with Ireland and the Protestant desire to remain part of Britain.