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LOOKING only to the events of this past year, numerous images claim indelible places in our memory and imagination. Millions marched in China's capital for political reform this spring before they gathered in East Germany. Leaders in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria have followed the Soviet Union's lead step-by-step in opening up totalitarian regimes...
...given the sweeping transformations under way, these measures seem limp. Such a step-by-step approach would be, at best, yet another example of the -- dare one say timid? -- incrementalism on arms control and trade that has marked Soviet-American relations for four decades. As Bush himself says, the opportunity is historic. The idea that the Warsaw Pact would launch a land invasion of Western Europe, which is what most of NATO expenditures are designed to prevent, has become nearly inconceivable. "It may be time to abandon incrementalism for a leapfrog approach, to see if we can really...
...Klerk speaks about a step-by-step process. Thus far he has permitted protests and released some political prisoners. Is this a reasonable approach...
...long as he is beginning to recognize the voice of the people, we do appreciate that. But we don't want a step-by-step process. We want immediate radical change...
...have serious doubts because they are still talking about group rights. That to us is still apartheid." Even so, black leaders do not want to pass up what could be an opportunity. They understand that De Klerk is not simply going to hand over the government and that a step-by-step process is the only realistic approach. "But if we were to say that publicly," one leader admits, "it would have a devastating effect on our movement. It could demobilize our people...