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Goldman said that since East Germany's economy is about one-tenth the size of its western counterpart, he did not think a reunification would present a danger to neighboring countries...
...movie moral awaits at the end, as comforting and predictable as a public-service commercial. For the real goods on women without men, and on the hold the dead have over the living, skip Men Don't Leave and catch up with its thrilling, high-fantasy counterpart, Always, still playing at a theater near...
ARMENIA. Legislators amended the republic's constitution to give the regional legislature primacy over its national counterpart, enabling Armenia to veto national laws that conflict with its interests. The parliament then defied the Kremlin by voting to include in its budget the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, geographically nestled in the republic of Azerbaijan...
...mounted by Lithuania threatened to have the most serious consequences. Nothing less than the territorial integrity of the Soviet Union, and possibly the survival of its leader, seemed to be at stake. The stage was set on Dec. 20, when Lithuania's Communist Party declared independence from its national counterpart. At the time, Gorbachev angrily told a group of Lithuanian parliamentarians that they had "stabbed perestroika in the heart." But Gorbachev knew that the party's maneuver was merely a dress rehearsal for the day when the republic would try to secede from the nation. In local elections...
Museums in Brunswick and Munich have bought some of the old clunkers to preserve what is perhaps the humblest symbol of one of the most extraordinary years in German history. Concluded Auto Motor und Sport: "The plain Beetle became a symbol of our economic miracle. The Trabant, its simple counterpart from the East, gave the first impulse to an even greater miracle." Proving, of course, that looks aren't everything...