Word: war
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cold War has been declared officially over many times in the last few weeks. Poland has replaced its government, East Germany has opened the Berlin Wall, and Czechoslovakia has begun to give in to protestors' demands. All this is happening with the encouragement, if not the active participation, of Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev...
...best interests of Gorbachev to promote revolution in Central America at the expense of improved relations with the United States. Nor is it in the long-term interest of the United States to continue seeing a left-wing victory as the worst possible outcome of the war...
...German marks, at the usurious rate of 1 to 1, one-tenth the black market quote, for every day they spend in the German Democratic Republic. In the evenings, the smell of coal smoke hangs over gray, dilapidated cities -- as it did in the bitter days right after World War...
...stakes in the air war are high. About 20% of all airline passengers worldwide this year flew business class, and the number is growing. United Airlines is spending $45 million to revamp its business class, while Continental is doubling its international business-class capacity. Airlines have decided that, with executives at least, it pays to be class conscious...
POSSIBLE German resentment toward the post-war settlement raises other troubling questions. Will East Germans once again look for scapegoats for the disastrous state of their economy? Will West Germany encourage their cousins' potential desires for revenge? More importantly, are Germans as committed to democratic principles as they seem, or are they merely using democratic rhetoric as an excuse to reunify and regain Germany's place...