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Before the East German elections earlier this year, Brandt was a stump speaker and nostalgia figure at campaign rallies. His Social Democrats lost because the people of the G.D.R. have had their fill of anything that even sounds socialist. But they still owe much to the author of Ostpolitik. What Willy Brandt did two decades ago helped make it possible for them to elect a unity Chancellor this year...
...production. Officials distinguish between drug trafficking, which mainly threatens the consumer countries, and narcoterrorism inside Colombia, which they are determined to stop. The constant terror bombings and assassinations have led to widespread calls for negotiation with the cartels. But that option has been rejected by both Barco and President-elect Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, who has promised to pursue the war when he takes office in August...
Although MIT's faculty fully expects the school to face an uphill course in the coming years, members say they are confident that Charles M. Vest, the recently appointed president-elect, will steer them well...
...lack of a deeper rapport should be no surprise. For one thing, there has been little time to develop any. Counting Gorbachev's trip to New York City in December 1988, when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly and visited briefly with Reagan and the then President-elect, he and Bush have seen each other only three times in the past year and a half, and until last week they had been alone only for about an hour. They have not even heard each other's voices very often. Though Bush incessantly telephones other foreign leaders, he has called...
...economist by training, the President-elect, who will take office on Aug. 7, also insists that the U.S. do more to help win the drug war. He complains that unfair tariffs on legitimate exports like coffee and flowers hinder efforts to squelch the drug trade. "The U.S. has to understand we don't want their troops," he says. "We want to be treated fairly as a trading partner...