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Money problems completed the process of disillusionment. For months, partners of Germany have been pressing that nation to reduce interest rates and allow the stalled European economy to gather some speed. The problem was that German unification was costing far more than Chancellor Helmut Kohl had anticipated -- and honoring a German version of the "read my lips" pledge, Kohl was paying the bills by borrowing money instead of hiking taxes. As a result, interest rates rose not only in Germany but also throughout the Continent. Supporters of European unity could claim that the closer union envisaged in the Maastricht treaty...
...special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there was no breakdown in civic order, the attacks reached to the front door of the government: right-wingers threw fire bombs at a house of asylum seekers a mile from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Bonn office...
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl deplored the mayhem as "a disgrace for our nation," but it is far from unusual. Violent right-wing incidents -- mostly against foreigners -- jumped almost sevenfold last year to nearly 1,500, a recent federal report found...
...Berkeley police said Rosebud Abigail Denovo, 19, broke into the mansion of University of California chancellor Chang-Lin Tien intending to kill him. Part of a self-styled "People's Will Direct Action Committee," Denovo took part in protests over plans by the university and the city of Berkeley to build volleyball courts at People's Park, long a refuge of the homeless. She had a history of psychiatric treatment and was arrested last year for stashing explosives at a bivouac in the Berkeley hills...
Denovo was shot dead by an officer who said she lunged at him with a machete when she was cornered in the chancellor's residence. A note found inside her duffel bag bore the message, "We are willing to die for this land...