Word: borderers
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Brian Mulroney has been a leader in redefining international politics. He was instrumental in bringing about the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and progress toward reducing the cross-border curse of acid rain. So far, however, his luck and skill have failed him at home. History and domestic politics seem to be conspiring against him. Quebec today is a would-be nation-state chafing against the vestiges of empire...
That is what businessmen and officials in the U.S. are hoping for too. Two- way trade across the border last year totaled almost $170 billion. Washington hopes Canada will not break up and does not think it will. But if it does, the Bush Administration is prepared to live with whatever arrangement Ottawa and Quebec can agree on. Washington's biggest concern is that the new Canadian entity retain its economic health. Like most Americans, officials in Washington seem to think Canada is such a stable, prosperous and rational society that it will resolve its problems sensibly...
...preoccupied with starting careers and families, they learned to live with Germany's division. "I always thought history would take care of the separation," says Hoell, "but maybe in 100 years." Born and raised outside Berlin, he fled with his mother to the West in 1949; sneaking across the border, they stumbled, just short of West German territory, into a Soviet soldier -- who let them go. Standing outside his house today, near a sunny Swabian vineyard, Hoell muses about going home sometime to the Brandenburg marsh and lake country...
...Communist leader Kim Il Sung hoped to destroy the U.S.-backed regime of South Korean President Syngman Rhee in a bold blitzkrieg. Kim nearly succeeded before U.S. troops and a hastily assembled United Nations force pushed the North Koreans back to the Yalu River on the Chinese border, prompting the intervention of a 1.2 million-man Chinese army that ultimately brought the conflict to a stalemate. After three years of battle, 33,600 American, 58,000 South Korean and 500,000 North Korean and Chinese soldiers had lost their lives. And little had changed...
...dream of a border-free Europe took a step toward reality last week. Aboard a cruiser sailing down the Moselle River past the village of Schengen, representatives of France, West Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed an agreement to abolish border checks for travelers and their luggage. The accord will go into effect in 1992. When it does, the internal frontiers shared by the five countries, including a newly unified Germany, will be partly dissolved, creating a 373,766-sq.-mi. passport-free territory informally dubbed Schengenland...