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But once again Britain refused to follow the European Community's lead. The recession was as bad there as it was on the Continent, and British voters were just as disgruntled. Even so, at the end of a four-week election campaign, they still found the Labour Party and its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Britain's Voters: A Major Surprise | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

A. I think Washington doesn't like the idea very much. But Washington realizes it has to be very, very careful on this continent. If there is one place where democracy must run fully, it is here. Therefore, if Quebecois want to become a sovereign nation, they will. It is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Liberty with a Difference | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Eaton, by contrast, is a rumpled, low-key executive who arrives free of entangling alliances and is willing to wait nearly a year to take Iacocca's job. While Eaton was not the architect of GM's European turnaround, he maintained the momentum of that business after becoming president in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Automobiles: Jockeying for Position | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

In this bald itinerary is all the romance that Forster and his generation felt for northern Italy. It summons the glory days when the English commandeered the Continent as if it were a feral cricket pitch and great novelists wrote about gentry who were slow to realize that Italy held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summoning The Glory Days | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Though Baker gets credit in European capitals for pushing early for German unification, he is criticized by some Europeans for insisting that NATO remain the main vehicle for the exercise of American influence on the Continent. There is also concern that the U.S. is too inattentive to the volatile situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Boldness Without Vision | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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