Word: european
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world order at all but a holding action on behalf of the old one. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev have a shared interest in slowing down the rush of events, particularly the juggernaut of German reunification. Consummate Atlanticist that he is, Bush is sensitive to West European anxiety about the disproportionate strength of a single Germany...
Shevardnadze already was scheduled to be in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday to sign a new trade and economic cooperation agreement with the 12-nation European Community. The accord will expand commercial ties between Moscow and prosperous Western Europe...
...June, the International Institute for Strategic Studies lists 326,400 troops for the United States European Command, and 565,000 Soviet troops outside the Soviet Union...
...implied restraint -- no single, mammoth German state was ever conjured in the speech -- seemed to appeal to many of Bonn's allies, as did the fact that the text betrayed no inclination for West Germany to stray from the folds of NATO or the European Community. The U.S. reacted positively, though it did not endorse Kohl's plan. State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said that "it should be no cause for concern that the Chancellor has laid out his vision for the future of Germany." The presentation did surprise Western capitals in one regard: Kohl had consulted none of them...
Suddenly, three years after its last assassination, the R.A.F. had roared back into life with the murder of West Germany's most influential captain of finance. Herrhausen ran the country's largest bank (assets: $165 billion), maintained close ties with Soviet and East European officials and was an outspoken advocate of German unification. Only last spring the weekly Der Spiegel dubbed him "the Lord of Money...