Word: european
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall was the primary division between East and West Germany, and its opening removes the main obstacle to reunification. Some well-stacked bricks with electrified wire (and a few well-placed sharpshooters) doesn't constitute a wide enough chasm to keep apart the two halves of a once-mighty European nation. The gulf which separated the Germanies--and still separates them--is membership in their respective economic and military alliances, treaties more permanent than a stack of bricks...
After feeling remorse, I was overcome by paralyzing apprehension. "It can't be this easy," I think, "Something horrible has got to happen." An Eastern European version Tiananmen Square seems unlikely, but the very fact that I couldn't think of any alternative scenario heightened the mystery...
Kohl also said steps toward Germanreunification must be linked to improved East-Westrelations and a new European order based oncooperation, economic integration and greaterfreedom of movement...
Earlier, Hans-Jochen Vogel, the leader of theopposition Social Democrats, proposed aconfederation between the two German states as aninterim step toward unity. Vogel also insistedGerman unity come as part of the process ofoverall European integration...
Lech Walesa is welcomed in the U.S. as a hero and pleads to let "deeds follow words" in Congress. But diplomatic caution and crippling deficits could shut America out of the emerging European order. -- The House swaps a pay hike for an honorarium ban, but the Senate passes on the bucks. -- As the S & L scandal spreads, the spotlight turns on the federal regulator who let the looting continue. -- Tornadoes strike 14 states, devastating Huntsville, Ala., and a New York school...