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The agreement between the Soviet Union and the U.S. that will allow 30,000 more American troops than Soviet ones to be stationed in Europe was announced last week in what has become standard fashion in the fast-moving Gorbachev era: a casual aside. During a discussion about German unification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rush to Sign New Accords | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

But that was the postwar world; this is the post-cold war world, and things are dizzyingly different. Europe has been transformed by the retreat of Soviet imperial power, the collapse of Communist governments in the center of the Continent and the evaporation of the Warsaw Pact. The blinding pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe East Meets West At Last | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Many Europeans are apprehensive about reassembling a Germany of 77 million people in the center of the Continent. The Soviets, who estimate they lost 26 million people in their Great Patriotic War against the Nazis, have been the most vehement. If they were able, the Soviets would prevent unification altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe East Meets West At Last | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

One of these fields, African Studies, stands as a case in point. Although the African continent contains more than 40 countries and is the origin of countless aspects of American culture, the field remains largely neglected at Harvard. Interestingly enough, Africa--unlike Eastern Europe, for instance--holds little opportunity for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: End Academic Inequity | 2/22/1990 | See Source »

Perhaps most important, Gorbachev said he would agree to limit conventional forces in Europe on both sides to the 195,000 troops that Bush had proposed a week earlier, but with a key difference. Bush's plan would have allowed the U.S. to keep an additional 30,000 soldiers on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are These Men Smiling?: James Baker and Eduard Shevardnadze | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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