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...classified State Department study of French-Canadian nationalism speculated that the secession of Quebec might lead the other nine provinces to sue for union with the U.S. Some Americanized Canadian businessmen dreamed of the ultimate merger. But the author of the report called the dissolution of Canada, even if it doubled the size and vastly increased the natural resources of the U.S., a "worst-case scenario...
...Democratic Republic, an entire society will be transformed. After nearly a half-century of communism, East Germans are now living under West German rules on corporate and union activities, welfare and insurance. Although there is still no agreement on important details of the political and military future, the economic merger reflects a historic moment that until recently few people imagined they would ever live to see: the peaceful rejoining of Germany. Before long, the united country will take West Germany's official name, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the G.D.R. will formally be abolished...
...merger process is not proving to be easy -- and no one expected it to be. The most nettlesome outstanding issue is the military future of Central Europe, with Moscow balking at the West's insistence that a united Germany remain a full member of NATO. The West has offered substantial inducements: no NATO troops in East Germany, the continuance of Soviet forces there for a time at German expense, plus substantial German aid to the Soviet economy...
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Bonn and Prime Minister Lothar de Maziere in East Berlin are pressing full speed ahead. Kohl in particular is determined, as he puts it, "not to miss the unification train, which may not come another time." With a large majority in both Germanys supporting merger -- even though there are some reservations as to speed and cost -- the Chancellor is planning to hold all- German elections in early December...
...fact, not even Radcliffe's administrators seem to be sure what their job is since the college completed its "non-merger merger" with Harvard in the 1970s. Although Radcliffe's new president, Linda S. Wilson, has spoken of creating a "shared vision" for the college since she took office last year, few women undergraduates know exactly what that means. And many still say that the name Radcliffe means little more to them than an extra word on their Harvard diplomas...