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...last two years of this decade could be the Spring of Nations in Central Europe. I am deliberately drawing the analogy to 1848, which was called the Spring of Nations because Central European nations rose against authoritarianism...
...First, we need to discuss with all the parties concerned the implications of change in Central Europe, and also of change in Germany, because the two are related. We cannot end the division of Europe without also, in some fashion, ending the division of Germany. We are past the day when the future of Europe could be shaped either by us or by the Soviets alone, or even by us with the West Europeans. We now need to talk in equal depth with the Russians, with our allies, the West Europeans, and with our friends, the Central Europeans...
...military confrontation in the heart of Europe is waning, so there should be significant cuts in our defense budget. Security should be based on some new relationship between the two alliances, rather than a dissolution of the two alliances. Perhaps there could be a long-term arrangement for a transitional NATO and Warsaw Pact presence in the respective parts of a reconfederated Germany, so that there is no insecurity bred...
After more than two troubled years as the Government's top savings and loan regulator, M. Danny Wall fell victim to the nation's spreading S&L scandal. The clamor for his ouster mounted last month after lower-ranking bank examiners told Congress that Wall had unduly delayed for 21 months a Government takeover of high-flying financier Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, whose collapse could cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. Last week Wall finally bowed to the pressure and resigned as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He had been victimized, Wall complained, by "simplistic efforts...
...Two outcomes were possible, Migranyan suggested: Gorbachev might become more authoritarian, "crushing all obstacles and imposing economic reforms," or a conservative regime might emerge that would jettison him along with his political and social reforms, even while seeking to modernize the economy. With Gorbachev's room for maneuver shrinking, Migranyan said, "maybe we need an authoritarian period of development . . . if democracy prevents market mechanisms from developing...