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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...
...cities of China are a tinderbox," he adds. "Events in the cities can topple a government or threaten a government...
Even a new treaty reducing strategic weapons is not likely to disarm his challengers at home. -- An epidemic of ethnic hatred is sweeping the world, and some governments are trying to combat it. -- South African vigilantes threaten a "holy war" to defend apartheid. -- A caste murder in India becomes a national scandal...
...Nuclear weapons divide and threaten mankind. But there are peaceful uses of nuclear energy that should promote the unity of mankind. Chernobyl was an example of the tragic interaction of equipment failure and human error. Nevertheless, the aversion people rightly feel for military applications must not spill over to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Mankind cannot do without nuclear power. We must find a solution to the safety problem that will rule out another Chernobyl resulting from human error, failure to follow instructions, design defects or technical malfunction...
...long as the economy was growing -- and as long as the old political institutions suppressed any hint of nationalism or regionalism -- the system remained intact. But now the economy is in decline. That fact, combined with democratization, has doomed central planning and exacerbated the centrifugal trends that threaten to tear the country apart...