Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today, more than a year after the rape, those demands for a safer, more secure campus remain illusory, partially fulfilled at best...
Kohl's proposal, delivered in an uncharacteristically bold speech to the Bundestag, is predicated on the assumption that there will be free, multiparty elections in East Germany. Though the details remain nebulous, the outline provides for a massive infusion of economic aid from West Germany to follow soon after the polling. The two countries would then establish joint committees for determining what political and economic links would be established between them and how extensive the reunification ought to be. "Nobody knows how a reunified Germany will look," said Kohl. "But I am sure that unity will come...
...more mixed. The parliament in East Berlin fulfilled one of Kohl's prerequisites -- for its own purposes, to be sure, not in order to please Kohl -- by eliminating the Communist Party's monopoly of power. But East German leader Egon Krenz told TIME that "so long as both states remain in their political and military alliances, a confederation of the two states is simply not possible." Several of the country's new opposition parties also weighed in against the Kohl scheme because of their desire to maintain some kind of separate, reformed socialist state. Even so, Kohl may have many...
Since the first fusillade of stones and bullets two years ago, more than 750 Palestinians have been killed and tens of thousands wounded. Sixty have been expelled, and 6,000 remain imprisoned without trial. Israeli troops have sealed or demolished at least 400 homes. At the same time, the Jewish population in the territories has increased 12%, to nearly 80,000, not including East Jerusalem, and the government has quietly inaugurated six new settlements...
...Pascal Delamuraz once called the initiative "an idiocy as big as the Matterhorn." Swiss voters, though, viewed the issue with great seriousness: 68.6% of them turned out, more than have shown up for any other of the < country's incessant referendums in the past 15 years. The army will remain, but it has been sharply shaken and irrevocably affected...