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...feat is all the more salutary given the building's horribly overbuilt location: just 25 ft. east stands Metropolitan Tower, a grim, 66-story black glass trapezoid finished in 1986 (only the two-story Russian Tea Room separates the two buildings), and less than a block south is architect Helmut Jahn's new 70-story Cityspire. Yet instead of adding to the high-rise pile-on, Carnegie Hall Tower improves the neighborhood and the skyline -- in part by visually eclipsing Metropolitan Tower -- and proves that grandeur need not equal bulk. Pelli's apartment-and-office tower is a full block...
...striking workers are demanding preferential personal-tax treatment until their economy rises to Western levels. West German income taxes average about 33%, in contrast to about 5% in the East. East Germans are also angry that a flood of West German investment, which Chancellor Helmut Kohl promised during last spring's election campaign, has failed to materialize. The lack of capital, plus competition from Western products, is wiping out East German companies and farms. Unemployment reached 350,000 in August and continues to rise at a rate of 25,000 a week. The International Policy and Science Institute in East...
...about Mearsheimer's message is that the bad news with which he concludes is unpersuasive. His pessimism is unwarranted by what is already happening in Europe. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Europe's most unabashed opponent of the superstate, is increasingly the odd woman out. Other leaders, particularly Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and President Francois Mitterrand of France, seem committed to moving in the direction that Thatcher disdains -- toward forms of political and military cooperation that entail the pooling of sovereignty...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl suffered a rare setback on the road to unity last week when he had to abandon plans to advance the first all-German elections from Dec. 2 to Oct. 14. Opponents charged that Kohl hoped that facing voters sooner rather than later would protect his Christian Democrats from the disillusion of the electorate as the costs of unification swell...
...Maiziere's appeal came just one day after the two Germanys signed a treaty for the first free all-German vote in 57 years. De Maiziere explained that October elections would encourage West German investment in East Germany's floundering economy. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl welcomed the proposal, which will improve the chances of the Christian Democrats, the party of both the Chancellor and De Maiziere, since the opposition will have less time to organize...