Word: answer
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...have free movement of capital, open borders, no trade barriers among the member nations and a common tariff on outside goods. Some now see difficulties in the new possibility of German reunification and an economic opening to the East. Leaders of the European Community are convinced, however, that the answer to that possibility is not to delay the Western merger but to speed it up. "Time is short," European Commission President Jacques Delors declared in an address at the College of Europe in Bruges. "History is accelerating, and we must accelerate as well...
...against the system is building, and there comes a point beyond which one cannot turn back. However naive our faith may seem, we will continue the fight. Even if we are convinced the battle is lost from the beginning, at least for the time being we will have to answer the challenge...
...what was this capability that the Soviet Union supposedly had, which the West must, at whatever cost necessary, be prepared to match and thwart? The short answer: the capability to win World War III. And what would World War III be like? Again, the short answer: it would be like the beginning of World War II. The minds and computers of Western defense experts have long concentrated on two dangers, each a variant of a devastating episode that occurred about a half-century ago. One is an armored attack on Western Europe, a replay of Hitler's dash...