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...June 12, 1987. With Gorbachev's acquiescence, if not encouragement, the deed was done. Last week Reagan stood beside a three-ton chunk of the Berlin Wall, 9 1/2 ft. tall and 3 1/2 ft. wide, and called it "an unnatural, ugly, unwelcome, undeniable symbol of the oppression of communism...
...Dwight Eisenhower carried Indiana with the help of Quayle's grandfather, publisher Eugene Pulliam, and William Jenner, who were, respectively, the right and the far right of the state Republican Party. When the John Birch Society was set up in 1958 with the thesis that Eisenhower had collaborated with communism, Quayle's parents became enthusiastic supporters of it. James Quayle compared Birch Society founder Robert Welch to the legendary prophet Nostradamus...
...they believe, Mikhail Gorbachev's political savoir-faire and the imminent collapse of communism will give them the money to further inflate the Great Society programs of the 1960s and 70s. They are convinced that anti-communist, anti-government conservatism has lost its appeal in the changing world...
WHAT do venerable vegetables and East European communism have in common...
While the vote was widely interpreted as a grass-roots thumbs-up for the rapid unification of the two Germanys, preparations for the funeral of the G.D.R.'s failed experiment in communism have only begun. To guide East Germany through the intricacies of unification, the triumphant conservatives in East Berlin must first build a government. Last week the CDU reached out to the Social Democrats, asking them to join a "grand coalition" in hopes of forging the two-thirds parliamentary majority required for constitutional changes...