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Having marched headlong to the precipice of war, both sides in the Persian Gulf conflict peered into the abyss last week and took a deep breath. From all the signs, each party wanted to inch back from the brink...
...headlong rush toward unification picked up still more speed last week as East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere urged that all-German elections be moved up from Dec. 2 to Oct. 14. De Maiziere's appeal came just one day after the two Germanys signed a treaty for the first free all-German vote in 57 years. De Maiziere explained that October elections would encourage West German investment in East Germany's floundering economy. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl welcomed the proposal, which will improve the chances of the Christian Democrats, the party of both the Chancellor...
...pivotal to the entire European process; it affects the vital interests of many countries in Europe, including the Soviet Union, which sacrificed more than anyone to make sure that war should never again come from German territory. Not even the most + sincere assurances given now, in this headlong rush, can substitute for solid international guarantees that Germany will always pursue peaceful development and peaceful policies toward other countries...
...week after dashing headlong into the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, Boston University's president, John Silber, was asked if he'd gleaned any early lessons from his introduction to politics. Said the former philosophy professor with characteristic snap, crackle and pop: "It advises me to be less interesting, to learn to speak plastic, so that no one has the slightest idea what you're talking about...
...suspicious of what I have been reading and seeing on television, suspicious because I see very few stories -- actually only a few quotes and sound bites and pictures of the same demonstrators in Leipzig shouting their unification slogans -- as evidence that the country's citizens are marching headlong toward one Germany. In East Berlin, where I rode the trains back and forth to the West from the Friedrichstrasse Station, where I walked into cafes and discos and shops and asked people their feelings, I could hardly find any citizens who said they wanted a reunified, single Germany. Perhaps...