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...Barnevik gave up the title of chief executive officer he had held since he created ABB in 1988 by fusing Sweden's Asea with Switzerland's BBC Brown Boveri. Though he will remain a strong presence at ABB, the move will give him time to preach his gospel of East-West economic cooperation to skeptical politicians, labor leaders and business executives. "This is something very close to my heart," he says. "If we can combine the low wages in the East with the high skills in the West, we can revitalize Europe." Barnevik believes the West can do well...
...departments in the College of Liberal Arts. Forty-nine thousand students ambulated over a space that occupied the two sides of the Mississippi River and that, as a commuter campus, turned into a alien zone every evening. The campus is bordered by I-94, the east-west highway that goes from Chicago to Seattle. Around the University were erected--I recall from the center field of countless softball games in the local summer leagues that played on diamonds squinched between warehouses and railway tracks--great grain elevators, bearing different emblems--Cargill, General Mills, Ceresota--recalling the cathedral-church of Albi...
...Berlin court handed East German lawyer Wolfgang Vogel a two-year suspended sentence for perjury, blackmail and falsification of documents in extorting money from emigrants fleeing to the West. Vogel had helped arrange the swaps of more than 150 spies in a three-decade career as an East-West intermediary during the cold...
...hand, Zyuganov is bent on winning the presidency next June, either for himself or for a popular anti-reform Communist candidate. If he succeeds, the current effort to reform and modernize Russia could be choked off in the grip of reimposed central control. The fabric of Russian society and East-West relations would suffer devastating damage...
...appeared there 56 times, more than any other man or woman. This issue contains excerpts from his 10th book, Beyond Peace, to be published by Random House on May 18. In his six most recent works, beginning with The Real War in 1980, the former President dealt primarily with East-West relations. In what he called "probably my last book," Nixon focuses on domestic issues like health care, education and urban decay, arguing that communism's defeat makes it imperative that America live up to its promises. Beyond Peace is the second work by the former President that we have...