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...drawers by Shiro Kuramata for $8,900. The furniture fills high-priced housing. A no-frills single-family house in choice areas of Baden-Wurttemberg or Bavaria averages about $300,000, a one-bedroom apartment rarely less than $160,000. The most reasonably priced region is along the East-West border, but even there the market is tight...
...will reduce the East-West confrontation further. We will make a lot of progress on the road to disarmament and detente. We will still need weapons and soldiers by the year 2000 because even then we will not have freedom for nothing. I am against a disarmament policy that takes announcements as deeds. You must be sure you get something in exchange for your concessions...
Arab alarms are reinforced by the building fear of Islamic fundamentalism in Western capitals and Moscow. As cold war tensions disappear, some intellectuals and politicians have begun to argue that the East-West confrontation will be replaced by North-South hostilities, which is to say a rising conflict between the haves and the have-nots. Islam is a religion that has appeal for the deprived. Moreover, although Tehran has yet to successfully export its revolution, the determination of Iran's fundamentalists to spread their radical brand of Islam raises the specter of subversion throughout the region...
...capability. Baghdad's vast arsenal of sophisticated weaponry is at the disposal of a 1 million-strong battle-hardened military, by far the largest of any Arab state. Given Israel's formidable military strength, Saddam's buildup amounts to a Middle East version of mutual assured destruction, the same kind of nerve-racking standoff that governed East-West relations throughout the cold...
After that, normalizing the East-West First Lady relationship was easy. Bush had already conceded victory to Gorbachev in the shopping, weight and wardrobe wars. Years of sitting at fund-raising dinners have taught her how to look fascinated by a lecture on multiple warheads, all the while fantasizing, perhaps, about curling up with the latest murder mystery later on. When feigned interest fails, she employs another tactic. Says Rebecca Matlock, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union: "Barbara knows how to change the subject when Mrs. Gorbachev begins, you know, talking like she does." For her part...