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Kohl, who has emerged as a leading architect of the post-Cold War Europe, insisted the United States must play a crucial role in turning the remnants of East Bloc communism into democracy...
...nothing about the constant persecution of the church, but he managed to avoid outright dishonesty. A pre-election article by Aleksy in a church journal mingled traditional views with support of Gorbachev's reforms and ecological activism. In a sermon last month at the Valaam monastery, Aleksy eloquently lamented communism's mass murder of clergy and destruction of churches...
...also exposed their limitations. Businesses and policymakers, awash in data and images, have discovered that information is not useful without expertise. With the most sophisticated intelligence-gathering tools at its disposal, the CIA could not accurately portray the disarray of the Soviet economy or predict the collapse of communism. Instead of making people redundant, the high-tech economy has only underscored the irreplaceable contributions of human knowledge and common sense...
...rivals and their lack of support among rural and industrial workers also helped. Iliescu has said he will model Romania's economy on that of Sweden, while retaining government control of heavy industry and agriculture. Having shed the corrupt Ceausescu, Romanians seem in less of a hurry to discard communism...
Independent since 1967, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen has spent the past 20 years in the Soviet orbit. The withdrawal of Soviet aid, plus the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, led South Yemen to accept an offer to unite with the Yemen Arab Republic, its northern neighbor...