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...HAJI RASHID, elderly Afghan migrant to Holland, arriving in Kabul on the first civilian flight from Western Europe to Afghanistan since the Soviet Union invaded...
...second part is leaving places that mark the battle lines of a long-dead war. The great threat today is not Soviet attack but radical Arab-Islamic terrorism and instability in that part of the world. Hence the redeployment of American forces from the plains of Europe, Korea, perhaps next Japan, to the battleground of today: the Horn of Africa, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf...
...Germany's top artist and president of the Artists' Federation of the G.D.R. (He also worked with the Stasi secret police to denounce colleagues.) His 1969 painting of Lenin, Hommage à Lenin, reflects the shift: it is a bombastic explosion of color, celebrating Lenin at a time when the Soviet Union was despised by the people of Eastern Europe. By the 1980s, the end of the regime was nearing. Cornelia Schleime, a former singer in a Dresden punk band and painter, was forced to leave East Germany in 1984. All of her early work was lost when she left...
...Liberty Political commentator Baopu Liu's viewpoint on China's President, Hu Jintao [July 7], noted that the Communist Party vowed to quadruple China's per-capita income by 2020 but made no promises about advancing democracy or civil rights. The Chinese have learned some lessons from the former Soviet Union. In the 1980s Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, encouraged by Western assurances, pursued glasnost (openness) before perestroika (restructuring) and saw the Soviet Union split apart in 1991. Like the U.S.S.R., China consists of many cultures and ethnic groups. Chinese leaders have decided, very wisely, to pursue their policies...
...highlighted some peculiar German government business practices. The litigation began within months of the reunification of Germany, when Hertie and the Jewish Claims Conference filed competing claims for a clutch of Wertheim properties. From the beginning, Hertie was at a disadvantage because Wertheim property was confiscated by the Soviet authorities immediately after World War II. According to the terms of Germany's reunification treaty, such property was not required to be returned to its former owner. In 2001, a Berlin court handed down the most authoritative ruling to date, awarding all the property to the Claims Conference, saying that...