Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process of unification has increased German involvement abroad. Beyond funding the withdrawal and the resettlement in the U.S.S.R. of Soviet troops now based in East Germany, a new friendship and cooperation treaty gives Germany the closest ties of any Western country with Moscow...
...voters, it is on a foreign policy that is resolutely moderate and unadventurous. "With our greater weight we will not seek more power," insists Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, "but we will act in awareness of the added responsibility it imposes on us." No sooner had he signed the friendship treaty with Moscow, for example, than he was balancing it with a call for "a transatlantic declaration between the European Community and the North American democracies...
...popular work like The Dead Girl. But in reading, it becomes obvious that Thernstrom wants--indeed needs--the reader to know the artistic and capricious girl she knew. And although Lee, in Thernstrom's candid depiction of her, is not always likeable, the reader never doubts their friendship...
...Dead Girl, despite a few sensationalist tendencies, is at once a genuinly sensitive, intelligent, humane and literate book that deals honestly with the dangers, especially for women, of coming of age in a violent time. It raises some unsettling questions about friendship, love and trust...
They thought I should have fictionalized Roberta. But there is no point in writing a glossed version of your life. [Her own] family would have had me take out anything problematic. I wouldn't do that. There is nothing bad in trying to capture her. My primary loyalty and friendship was with Roberta, not her family...