Word: unificationism
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Jim, who came to this assignment three years ago from Moscow, and Dan, who joined the bureau on the eve of economic merger after 2 1/2 years as a writer in New York City, then produced the coverage for a six-page progress report on German unification in this week...
As he talked to Germans about the effects of unification, Jackson was struck by "how far they have come in so short a time -- and how discontented they are about it. A year ago, East Germany was choking on soft-coal fumes and immobilized by the clutter of failure." Now...
Germans are turning their faces to the future, after a unification that came sooner and easier than they or anyone else could have imagined. Only a year ago, on July 1, 1990, monetary union made the Federal Republic and the Democratic Republic a single economic zone. Three months later, on...
Yet there is little joy in Germany today. The mood is subdued, as if, at a time that should be reserved for quiet satisfaction, a shadow has fallen on the land. A few years down the road it will all work out, Germans assure one another, but most are aware...
Such feelings did not exist, or were not visible, before unification, when all but the iron-minded leaders in the east accepted that the two German states were culturally one nation. "For 40 years we did not talk about differences, only about similarities," says Volker Ronge, a sociologist at the...