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While Europeans and the superpowers are looking for subtle ways to contain potential German ambitions, the Germans themselves are attracted by neutrality. Polls indicate that the majority in both parts of the country favor withdrawal from their alliances once they are united. But Germany's Eastern and Western neighbors suggest that neutrality is totally unacceptable. The new Germany, they insist, must remain firmly embedded in NATO and the E.C.; otherwise it could become an unpredictable force in the heart of Europe. "Our main concern is with the future of the North Atlantic Alliance," says British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd...
Postwar demobilization is a very American idea. We have a penchant for demobilizing the day after the war is won. After World War I, we rapidly demobilized and disengaged from Europe. With no countervailing American force to contain the rise of the monstrous totalitarianisms of the '30s, the way was cleared for World...
Dale M. Hennessey, the assistant director for administration at HDS, said that although Harvard tries to be receptive to special dietary needs, many strict vegetarians--known as "vegans"--cannot eat the standard vegetarian offerings, many of which contain eggs or dairy products...
Moscow is visibly scrambling to find a way to contain this spreading chaos without resorting to repression. Like every Soviet leader since Lenin, Gorbachev faced a nationalities problem; he simply did not know how to solve it. A special party Central Committee meeting on the issue was repeatedly delayed. When it finally convened last September, it was evident that the postponement had done little good, and Kremlin planners continued to underestimate the strength of rising nationalism. The policy they put forth was a vague collection of homilies on the inadmissibility of secession and the importance of economic integration. "Our party...
...very good players. He's got incredible size and strength," lacrosse Co-Captain Mark Donovan said. "In his three years here, he's developed a great check and an ability to contain forwards...