Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HISTORY TEACHES US: TODAY, IT'S AGAINST FOReigners; tomorrow, it's against the handicapped; and the day after, it's against those who think differently." Thus spoke Bjorn Engholm, leader of Germany's Social Democrats, at a special party congress in Bonn on right-wing violence. After months of painful argument over its long-standing defense of Germany's liberal immigration policy, the opposition SPD heeded Engholm's call and voted to move the party's position for political asylum closer to that of the ruling center- right coalition. The decision to push for a constitutional amendment to stem...
...sociology of causes that eastern Germany has in abundance. The main one is economic collapse. When unemployment, forced early retirement and make-work training schemes are taken together, roughly 40% of the east's labor force is out of work; nearly 3 million jobs have disappeared since unification. Although Bonn is pumping more than $100 billion a year into the east, economic output has shrunk to a third of its preunification level, and the long-predicted rebound is not in sight...
...postunification vacuum has stepped the far right, which offers its own ideas of order. To many, the restoration of order means in part a Germany without foreigners, and that appeals to a significant minority. Enrico, a 15- year-old Berliner, describes himself as right-wing and disgusted with Bonn's "miserable policies." He says he finds the Third Reich an attractive model: "O.K., everything wasn't exactly right then, but there was order in Germany. Then there were just Germans in Germany. I don't like the way Germany looks...
Above all, the federal government needs to find more effective economic strategies to ease the hopelessness that afflicts the young in the east. And Bonn will have to stop treating the violence as a public relations problem. In seeing xenophobia and racism for the evils they are, the Kohl government can begin to follow the lead of the hundreds of thousands who gathered peacefully in the streets of Berlin...
London: William Mader Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Berlin: Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels, Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: Laura Lopez...