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...recent events were clearly not an outpouring of nationalism, but a celebration of freedom. The destruction of the wall was not seen as the sign of regaining German strength (after all, it is Mikhail Gorbachev, not Germany, who was largely responsible for the dramatic changes), but the reunion with relatives, old and new friends was celebrated. Contrast this, for example, to the Anschluss of Austria or the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, where people cheered at parading tanks and soldiers. I think the difference could hardly be more striking...
...been declared officially over many times in the last few weeks. Poland has replaced its government, East Germany has opened the Berlin Wall, and Czechoslovakia has begun to give in to protestors' demands. All this is happening with the encouragement, if not the active participation, of Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev...
...history of nurturing plans in secrecy and suddenly springing them, to the consternation of critics who had reproached him for indecision and timidity. The President did just that in presenting arms-reduction proposals to a NATO meeting last May and again in arranging his Malta summit with Mikhail Gorbachev, to be held Dec. 2-3. Says Kim Holmes, foreign policy and defense analyst at the Heritage Foundation, which Bush has asked for summit- planning recommendations: "When George Bush gets put up against the ropes politically, he usually pulls off something bold and successful...
...success as a collaborator has brought him a comfortable life in an affluent suburb of Boston that enables him, as he says, "to buy raspberries instead of apples." He is currently compiling an anthology of American humor and mulling future celebrity subjects. He muses about Mikhail Gorbachev ("but somehow I think he's busy right now"), and, as a music lover who has recently resumed piano lessons, he thinks about Paul McCartney or Barbra Streisand. "Or Elvis, if he can find him," wisecracks Ben, 10, one of the Novaks' two sons. As for a return to the solo byline...
With breathtaking speed, the hideous partition that split Berlin falls to the pickax of reforms inspired by Mikhail Gorbachev. As the city exults and the world ponders the consequences, one thing is certain: nothing will ever be quite the same again. -- Is one Germany better than two? -- An obituary for the Wall of Shame, where some 75 people yearning for freedom have perished...