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...Bush's plan to send in Peace Corps volunteers to teach English in Hungary served as a nice counterpoint to the dropping of Russian-language requirements in that nation's schools. But the second language there has traditionally been German. The historic role of Germany, however, is a troublesome obstacle to what Bush referred to as "making Europe whole again." Poles in particular have suffered from German expansionism, stretching from the Teutonic Knights of the 13th century to Hitler's invasion 50 years ago. To the extent that the E.C. becomes more unified, fears of a resurgent Germany are likely...
...toward a free-market economy mostly on their own, without provoking another era of repression from nervous party bosses. Bush offered only $115 million to Poland, a pittance when measured against Poland's $39 billion international debt, and $25 million to Hungary. But part of the President's traveling plan was not to overpromise and energize the dissidents, who might then make more demands...
...reflection of the population it serves: argumentative, divisive and incapable of achieving consensus on how to deal with the Palestinian question. Now the latest attempt at unity is faltering after seven months, as the country's two major parties bump heads over the future course of a peace plan that calls for elections in the occupied territories. Bowing to pressures from hard-liners within his Likud bloc, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir two weeks ago saddled the proposal with conditions that are anathema to the Palestinians. Labor Party leaders responded last week by voting to quit the government. The move...
...elections. The Bush Administration signaled its irritation by reviving talk of an international peace conference, an option repellent to Shamir. In a New York Times interview, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the Likud stipulations a "deadly blow," but he did not torpedo the plan...
...struggled to keep the plan afloat, but each move served only to further sour relations with Israel. When Washington passed word that it hoped the Israeli government would remain intact, Labor leaders denounced the bid as a "gross interference in Israel's internal affairs." When the Bush Administration described as "senseless and tragic" a Palestinian attack on % an Israeli bus two weeks ago that resulted in 14 deaths, Israeli officials were furious that the U.S. had not denounced the act as terrorism. And when a U.S. official implied that Israel and the P.L.O., using American intermediaries, had engaged in secret...