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Kohl used his Commencement address to again quell fears that a united Germany might threaten the peace in Europe. He not only reaffirmed Germany's commitment to economic integration in 1992, but also predicted that Europe would further integrate by the century...
Nonetheless, the crisis continued to underscore the difficult role that the army must play in Gorbachev's Soviet Union. As ethnic conflicts and secessionist movements boil over in at least half a dozen republics, the military is increasingly being called upon to quell violence and to police disputes between citizens and their leaders. Faced with troop withdrawals in Eastern Europe, budget cuts at home and increasing criticism in the press, the 4 million-man armed forces have been plunging rapidly in both public esteem and institutional authority. Meeting with TIME's editors in New York City last week, Vitali Korotich...
Late last month rampaging white hoodlums attacked blacks with iron bars and baseball bats, injuring three North African immigrants. As the assaults continued, authorities flooded the city with 300 police to quell the violence and chase out immigrant street vendors, who have angered native-born merchants, inflaming tensions. After a hunger strike by more than 100 Senegalese, the city agreed to new rules governing street sales...
...strained to break one of apartheid's shackles last week by rising up against the Pretoria-installed leaders of two tribal homelands. In coastal Ciskei, army officers overthrew the government of "President for Life" Lennox Sebe. In Bophuthatswana, in north-central South Africa, troops and police rushed in to quell a popular revolt against President Lucas Mangope. Security forces also braced for trouble in Venda, in the country's northern...
...which contains some 55 million Muslims, overwhelmingly located in the five Central Asian republics and Azerbaijan. Among some anxious citizens, the discovery has touched off premonitions of disaster, as republic after republic is shaken by unrest, often with religious overtones. After Soviet troops were called in last January to quell bloody rioting in Azerbaijan, Igor Belyaev, a prominent Soviet commentator on Muslim affairs, warned that "Iran has threatened the Soviet Union with an Islamic conflagration." President Mikhail Gorbachev argued that "Islamic fundamentalism" was a major factor in the rioting against minority Armenians in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku...