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...says. "It enhances the way you experience the words." At age 16 he leased his own letterpress, and Thornwillow was born. His first coup was printing historian William L. Shirer's memoir of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. Since then Thornwillow has published works by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Helmut Kohl. This week it brings out The Presidency by Hugh Sidey. The book is available through Thornwillow Press in New York City; $300 leather, $75 cloth...
With the cold war over, it hardly seems time to start building an all-new army in Europe. Yet France and Germany are doing just that. President Francois Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week proposed the creation of an all-European army, starting with a small Franco-German brigade that is already in existence and eventually comprising troops from all the nine nations in the Western European Union. Staunch Atlanticists initially opposed the idea: British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd called it an unnecessary "duplication" of NATO. But others, including the U.S. -- which is not a member...
Bonn's reaction has not helped much. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats seized on the attacks to push for a constitutional amendment curbing Germany's liberal provisions for asylum. But some critics say that by harping on the constitution instead of cracking down on the attacks, the CDU has encouraged the skinheads. Others complain that the CDU's arguments implicitly blame the victims by suggesting more foreigners mean more violence. However deserved the criticism was, the debate was not making Germany safer for foreigners...
...last month's London summit of the Group of Seven leading industrial powers. The Germans, whose $35 billion in commitments to Moscow surpasses all other sources of Soviet aid put together, were horrified by the crisis that had threatened to blow up in their faces. An unusually blunt Chancellor Helmut Kohl told his allies, "The dumbest possible policy now would be for us to sit back as international onlookers and say, 'So, what are they doing in Moscow...
...banking systems, energy resources and food production. They also offered to help convert Soviet military industries, which, according to some estimates, still account for about 20% of the gross national product, to civilian production. The G-7 chairman -- Major until the end of the year, then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl -- will visit the U.S.S.R. "to keep in close touch" with the progress of reforms...