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...real origin of the suspicions about Germany's future is, of course, its dark past, namely the crimes committed during the twelve-year reign of Adolf Hitler. Hitler, after all, did not commit those crimes by himself; other Germans piloted the bombers over Warsaw, and other Germans operated the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Though the majority of today's Germans were not even born when those crimes were committed, the nation remains tainted by the Nazi legacy that endures in the world's memory...
...issue in the Uruguay Round: the huge agricultural subsidies doled out by these supposedly free-market economies. Each year taxpayers and consumers in the industrialized countries pay roughly $245 billion to support farm prices ($32 billion in the U.S. alone). The leaders of the U.S. and the E.C. should commit to a significant reduction of this gross distortion of world trade. And, just as the European Community is doing internally by 1992, the summit should pledge to eliminate tariffs on manufactured goods and restrictions on trade in services among all industrialized countries by the year...
...star witness: movie actor George Hamilton. Imelda's dancing partner at countless parties, he testified in a voice choked with emotion, "When my brother died, my mother wanted to commit suicide." Imelda Marcos' kindness, he said, is "the only reason my mother is alive today...
Ruth Rendell has enough talent for two people, so she also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine. They usually concern a crime committed long ago; this time, Gallowglass (Harmony; 272 pages; $19.95) shifts from past to present, from first person to third, like sand in an hourglass. The kidnaping of an heiress was foiled years ago; now the same man tries to commit the same crime, this time with the aid of the naive narrator. An attempt is made to bribe the woman's bodyguard; when he refuses, the malefactors kidnap his young daughter with catastrophic results...
...civil rights bill has Bush playing for time. Business lobbyists and activists on Bush's right flank widely oppose the measure. Pressure from the right is so intense that White House officials have been careful not to commit bargaining positions to paper, lest their boss be accused of backing down in the end. After counseling Bush to cut what deals he can, Lee Atwater, the convalescent Republican National Committee chairman who masterminded the 20% solution, advised him to "sign this bill...