The Washington Post, February 15th, 1990
REGARDED UNTIL very recently as an explosive issue that would take years to resolve, German reunification is now being addressed and tamed at an astonishing pace. It is not simply that East Germany, by collapsing into West Germany, began making reunification a fact. The two superpowers had been resisting the very idea of unification, insisting it could come only slowly and not on the Germans' motion. Now they accept it as coming rapidly-from the Germans. Playing catch-up with a vengeance, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France-the wartime Big Four-have organized themselves wit...
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