Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...addition, Kohl answered critics who have said a united Europe might threaten either world security or, more directly, American economic interests. He denied that a united Europe would become a fortress of trade barriers, and vowed that the new community would "not be an exclusive club...
...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...
...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...