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Baker's ideas for recasting the structures of U.S.-European cooperation -- dubbed "Bakerstroika" by British pundits -- were a first cut at answering a question implicit in the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the end of the cold war: as the Soviet military threat shrinks, what does Europe need with the U.S.? The decline of Soviet power, the growing vitality of the European Community and the rush to reunify Germany require the U.S. to contemplate European ties based less on fear of Moscow's intentions and more on healthy economic and political competition...
...with little or no political experience were suddenly thrust into positions of leadership. Then as now, the European uprisings fanned the flames of nationalism and raised what came to be known as "the German question" -- the possibility that all Germans would unite in one state. In 1848 the widely despised symbol of the old order was the aged Austrian Chancellor, Klemens von Metternich. His flight from Vienna touched off the kind of rejoicing that greeted the opening of the Berlin Wall this November...
...home from two fronts: what he calls the "adventurists" and the "reactionaries." Last week the Soviet leader took on the adventurist radicals, criticizing them for racing "like firemen, with clanging bells" to abolish the constitutional guarantee of Communist Party rule. The Congress decided not to take up the contentious question of Article 6, voting 1,138 to 839, with 56 abstentions. But the margin of victory was not so comfortable that the Kremlin could indefinitely ignore the East European-like rush to multiparty politics. Boris Yeltsin, the ex-Politburo member turned radical populist, urged the leadership to learn the lessons...
...would like to see the team be competitive in every meet," Mee said. "There has been an upswing in terms of talent, but there is a question of bringing it together...
...told him there was one question that always kept coming up. What would happen if trouble developed inside the Soviet Union and they had to use force to put it down? I said I always refused to answer such a hypothetical question, but Americans were asking it. He did not give a direct answer, but he strongly implied, 'Look, I'm going to succeed...