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EDITORIAL SERVICES: Christiana Walford (Director); Jennie Chien, Hanns Kohl, Benjamin Lightman, Beth Bencini Zarcone...
With the cold war over, it hardly seems time to start building an all-new army in Europe. Yet France and Germany are doing just that. President Francois Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week proposed the creation of an all-European army, starting with a small Franco-German brigade that is already in existence and eventually comprising troops from all the nine nations in the Western European Union. Staunch Atlanticists initially opposed the idea: British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd called it an unnecessary "duplication" of NATO. But others, including the U.S. -- which is not a member...
EDITORIAL SERVICES: Christiana Walford (Director); Jennie Chien, Hanns Kohl, Benjamin Lightman, Beth Bencini Zarcone...
Bonn's reaction has not helped much. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats seized on the attacks to push for a constitutional amendment curbing Germany's liberal provisions for asylum. But some critics say that by harping on the constitution instead of cracking down on the attacks, the CDU has encouraged the skinheads. Others complain that the CDU's arguments implicitly blame the victims by suggesting more foreigners mean more violence. However deserved the criticism was, the debate was not making Germany safer for foreigners...
EDITORIAL SERVICES: Christiana Walford (Director); Jennie Chien, Hanns Kohl, Benjamin Lightman, Beth Bencini Zarcone...