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Ever since the breach of the Berlin Wall last November, the world has been pondering a new version of an old question: Can the interests of all Europeans be reconciled with the desire of 78 million Germans to live within a single state? This week's elections in East Germany are a reminder that the Germans will decide on their own when to unify. But the rest of the world still has a say in how unification affects NATO, European integration and Soviet reform. George Bush's position is simple and bold. He wants to keep NATO in Europe...
With the communist world changing so rapidly, what's a sixth-grade social- studies student in North Carolina to do? After events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall outpaced many questions on a statewide current-events test, officials decided it would be too expensive to update it. Instead they admonished students: "Do not think about the recent governmental changes that have occurred in the past few months when you choose your answers to the questions about Eastern Europe...
...What does one do about it?" asks Shepard Stone, former director of the Aspen Institute in West Berlin. "The U.S. is one of the greatest trading powers in the world. So is Japan. I know a lot of people who don't like the Americans or the Japanese. But it's smart statesmanship to work with reality. The Germans have behaved well in the European Community and the world...
...With the Berlin Wall down, the cold war over, the drug battle stuck in stalemate, almost everybody in the political world is waking up to the fact that the preservation and care of the land, air and water may rise and dominate all other issues. It links hearts and minds across continents, obliterates old barriers that kept people apart, banishes ideology. Eighty- seven-year-old Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina turned a deaf ear for years, but now he has listed the improvement of the environment as one of his top goals before he is called up yonder...
News Editor for This Issue: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Night Editors: Jonathan M. Berlin '92 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Seth A. Gitell '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Mark N. Templeton '92-'93 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Jeffrey C. Wu '92 Editorial Editors: Kelly A.E. Mason '92 Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Feature Editor: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Photo Editor: William H. Bachman '92 Business Editor: Timothy B. Paydos '92 Copy Editor: Clement...