Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spoke with Isaiah and Lady Berlin," he said, "and they should be able to find a place for you at their college if you have trouble finding housing." I was now positively embarassed. Did he know any limits...
SINCE the opening of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent torrent of change in the Eastern Bloc, experts have advanced scores of theories to explain the rise of freedom. Economists cite the inherent inefficiency of central planning, while the Right credits the Reagan military buildup with forcing Gorbachev to back down. The press, enamored of Gorbachev, credits his foresight and "vision" with Eastern Europe's new found freedom...
...public -- at least some of the time. Take the man who is America's best practitioner of the art of columny: succinctly melding fact and opinion in an unforgiving 770-word format. Even though in a parade of predictions in late 1988 he called the fall of the Berlin Wall, this Pulitzer-prizewinning pundit also flatly asserted last March that the Soviet Union would never brook Eastern Europe's attempts at independence. "Depend on Mr. Gorbachev to crack down as Mr. Stalin would have, fraternally rolling in the tanks and shooting the dissenters," he wrote. "The present Kremlin leader...
Despite such second thoughts, Gorbachev's earlier words had a profound effect on East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow. Two days later, Modrow signaled that he too had finally read the handwriting on the collapsed Berlin Wall. "Germany should once again become the united fatherland of all the citizens of the German nation," he said. Modrow unveiled a four-step process for the gradual merger of the two Germanys' economies, legal systems and governments that closely paralleled the plan presented in December by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, except on one critical point. Modrow unequivocally called for a neutral Germany...
Kohl welcomed Modrow's proposal, but he dismissed any prospect of a West German withdrawal from NATO. Perhaps in an attempt to downplay Modrow and his pitch for neutrality, Kohl said he will not discuss unification with East Berlin until after East Germans go to the polls in mid-March. But unification has emerged as the primary campaign issue in both East Germany and West Germany, which will hold its national elections in December. Already Kohl and his fellow politicians are seeking out like-minded brethren on the other side of the border, funneling campaign money and building alliances that...