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...real origin of the suspicions about Germany's future is, of course, its dark past, namely the crimes committed during the twelve-year reign of Adolf Hitler. Hitler, after all, did not commit those crimes by himself; other Germans piloted the bombers over Warsaw, and other Germans operated the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Though the majority of today's Germans were not even born when those crimes were committed, the nation remains tainted by the Nazi legacy that endures in the world's memory...
Human rights organizations refer to Doe's decade in power as a reign of terror. His government was brutal and corrupt; the country is nearly $2 billion in debt and virtually bankrupt. It is not certain, however, that Taylor will be an improvement. While he talks about free elections, he does not specify when they might take place...
...Patriarch draws immediate authority and credibility from his election by a 330-member Local Council with a bishop, priest and lay delegate representing each of the nation's dioceses. Aleksy will reign over a flock of some 50 million members (in contrast to 19 million Communists). As Mikhail Gorbachev fully recognizes, Orthodoxy could provide a unique source of continuity, stability and morality amid escalating Soviet turmoil. Enthroned at age 61 with life tenure, Patriarch Aleksy is quite likely to be a national leader long after Gorbachev leaves power...
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th century, Britain became famous for its merchant adventurers, bold entrepreneurs who sailed to the ends of the earth in search of wealth. If that wealth happened to be taken from a Spanish treasure fleet, or if there was a whiff of privateering and freebootery about their operations, that was all part of the game...
Something like that spirit has reawakened in the reign of Elizabeth's namesake, the present monarch. In this similarly acquisitive age, new Elizabethans like Lord Hanson and Sir James Goldsmith appear as contemporary Sir Francis Drakes, wreaking their havoc among clumsy corporate galleons. But the staid giants of British business -- the ships of the line, so to speak -- are hardly less daring in their sorties abroad. Nor have the kingdom's investment managers lagged behind...