Word: historyes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"If things begin to unravel too much [in East Germany], there will be a crackdown and government by decree and martial law," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, a member of the National Security Council under former President Ronald W. Reagan.
Adam B. Ulam, director of the Russian ResearchCenter and Gurney professor of history andpolitical science, said the rapid change wasprompting a "general discombobulation ofcommunism."
But Professor of History Charles S. Maier, adiplomatic historian, said Bush has been toocautious in his response to the Eastern Europeanpolitical tumult.
Also on the panel, moderated by Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, were John Ridpath, a professor of economics and intellectual history at York University and Jack Clark, executive board member of the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
But the Manhattan Borough president did not disappoint his backers. Running through his list of personal, national and local gratitude, he stopped to mention "that man of towering talent who touched the face of history--the Rev. Jesse Jackson."