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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Germanys has mounted faster than was predicted even in this age of sudden European transformations. In Bonn last week, Kohl won his coalition government's approval for talks with East Berlin on a monetary union that would make the deutsche mark the currency in both Germanys. He also set up a Cabinet-level committee to devise specific plans and legislation for political unification. Discussions on the merger would begin with the new East German government to be elected on March...
...Warsaw Pact. Bonn and its allies reject that idea but counter with one presented by Genscher. A unified Germany should remain in NATO, he proposed, but allied troops or military structures should stay out of the areas that are now East Germany. In Moscow for his own set of talks, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker hinted that Washington may be flexible on a united Germany's status within NATO, but he said, "Who knows how all this will turn out?" Last week the Soviet Union refused to accept Genscher's formulation...
...bellboys and happy-go-lucky tourists are prowling the Caribbean resort city of Cartagena, where George Bush and the leaders of the three South American nations that are the source of virtually all the world's cocaine will hold their five-hour meeting. An additional 5,000 troops have set up pedestrian checkpoints and roadblocks. Nearby, frogmen are scouring waters for submerged bombs, and a force of jet fighters and helicopter gunships will patrol...
...summit is set against the backdrop of a continuing hemispheric drug scourge that shows little sign of abating. Colombia's effort to rein in the drug lords has scored some successes. Barco told TIME, "The leadership of the drug cartels has received a major blow. A number of members of the cartels have been extradited to the U.S. to face trial. Their leaders are hiding and on the run." In the past twelve months, troops have confiscated more than 1 million gal. of precursor chemicals used in cocaine refinement and 32 tons of cocaine and coca paste, compared with...
...tabling the preamble to its own long-awaited set of free-speech guidelines, Harvard has questioned the philosophical basis for such restrictions in a way that most other schools have...