Word: priming
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...others with the curse of their history, a fact they may resent but cannot ignore. "The Germans want to think of the future," says Columbia University's Fritz Stern, a leading American expert on German history, "but their neighbors are thinking of the past." In Paris last month, former Prime Minister Michel Debre spoke warily about the prospect of a unified German nation. "We French," he said, "who know our neighbors well, how can we not remind all Europeans and the world as a whole of the need to guard against abuses which Germany commits in all areas when...
Israel harbors the deepest dread, as the collective survivor of the Holocaust that slaughtered 6 million Jews. "We cannot know where German enthusiasm may lead," Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir wrote to Kohl not long ago. "The Jewish people cannot be enthusiastic about this union." Despite a carefully nurtured reconciliation between Jerusalem and Bonn, which has paid $33 billion in reparations to Jews, memories are powerful. When Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, aware that Bonn has often been Israel's best friend in Europe, said he did not "foresee any breakdown of the democratic institutions in West Germany," the daily Ma'ariv...
...refusing to guarantee the Polish borders, Kohl allowed much of the world to point the finger and say, See, there they go again. As Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki told TIME last week, "All the recent ambiguous statements on the issue have convinced us that we are correct in demanding that the border be confirmed before Germany's unification...
With local CUT members pulling their children from schools and leaving their jobs, it would seem that something more is up. That feeling was heightened recently when Prophet sold the local building that houses the church's printing operation, a prime source of revenue. At least one internal church memo set last Friday as the day that members should be ready to go underground. Another memo quotes a representative of Guru Ma telling a shelter-group meeting, "You must do nothing but eat, sleep . . . and work at least twelve hours a day until the shelters are completed...
...rivals consider Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir a wily political escape artist. By exhausting opponents with delaying tactics and evading crucial decisions, the Likud party leader has managed to stick to his hard-line ideology while feigning compromise, burying in procedural minutiae every proposal for Arab-Israeli peace that has come...