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To: Ilaine who wrote (43575)	9/12/2002 7:11:04 PM
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CB: how likely do you think it is that the UNSC will move to take strong action here: 1) verifiable inspections with a deadline 2) the promise of military action if deadline is not met?

To: Ilaine who wrote (43575)	9/12/2002 7:27:36 PM
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With respect to rebuilding Germany, the New York Times just reviewed a new book about the fall of Berlin. After the Russians were through with the Germans and the Prussians, the defeated were smashed flat. Sure, Germany was the land of Beethoven and Schiller, but for years, real intellectuals were hounded out of the universities and out of the country, and only party hacks survived in academe and the arts. In East Germany, yes. And even in West Germany in the first decade after the war basic necessities had top priority: food, housing. Yet there was a group of writers who called themselves "Gruppe 47" - because they got together in 1947: uni-ulm.de