Word: westing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student from West Germany, I was deeply offended by Neil Cooper's editorial, "The Case Against Reunification" (Crimson, Nov. 22). While it lacks any understanding of the present situation in the Germanies, it creates the stereotypical image of the war-mongering and evil German...
...article starts with the completely wrong premise that all Germans have an intense desire to reunify and regain the strength Germany had in the past. I, for one, surely don't, and public opinion polls also show that the majority of West Germans are opposed to reunification. East Germans are also more concerned with changes within East Germany, including the right to free travel, than with reunification. The reunification debate is not a matter of discussion in the Germanies. The debate is largely held abroad. Therefore, the analogy comparing the appeasement policy in the 1930s to today's situation completely...
Holtz, growing up scrawny along a crook in the Ohio River, where Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania converge and steel mills and potteries hunker cheek by sooty jowl, was not what you would call successful either. "Everybody felt so sorry for him," says Joe McNicol, a classmate at St. Aloysius Grammar School and a fellow altar boy. "He was always the last person picked for teams." When his uncle Lou Tychonievich started a football team at St. Al's, young Lou learned every position so as to improve his chances of seeing action. He also studied the playbook, such...
NATION: As Europe's oppressed nations look to the West, the Bush Administration gropes for a policy -- and a vision...
Thousands of demonstrators shake the remaining hard-line regimes. -- Could East Germany hold its own in a partnership with West Germany? -- A hotbed of protest in Leipzig. -- Guerrillas storm the capital of El Salvador, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers, rebels and civilians, and the brutal slaying of six Jesuit priests...