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Kohl, meanwhile, was busy with internal politics, stumping for East Germany's March 18 election in support of a conservative alliance there that is linked to his CDU and laying the groundwork in West Germany for balloting in December. Appealing to both sets of voters is complicated, and sometimes contradictory. Kohl told a cheering rally in the Eastern city of Cottbus that the two states would be joined in a currency union "as fast as possible." He pledged that individual East German savings accounts would be redeemed one for one in deutsche marks (the black market rate...
...General Secretary of the Communist Party, Gorbachev had engineered nothing less than a coup d'etat, effectively ending his party's monopoly on power. Said he: "We all can feel the first real results of political change. A system of genuine people power is being created and the groundwork laid for building a country governed...
...such characterizations miss the big picture, not just of what Gorbachev is trying to do but also what he has already done. "Events" didn't liberate Eastern Europe, rein in the secret police or lay the groundwork for political pluralism and parliamentary democracy. If Gorbachev disappeared from the scene this week, his accomplishment would qualify as more than crisis management and ad hockery...
Delegates said they also plan to "lay the groundwork" for the Law School's first International Conference next year on "International Law after the Cold...
Oral Roberts is chastised as the TV pioneer whose promises of blessings, blended with fund raising, laid the groundwork for the authors' major target, the so-called word of faith movement (a.k.a. the "prosperity gospel"). This is a get-rich-quick brand of Christianity that holds that God is bound to give believers whatever they "claim" through faith...