Queda do Muro de Berlim – 20 anos (VII)
9 Novembro, 2009 at 3:20 pm Deixe um comentário
East-West: Turning Visions Into Reality
By the time George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Malta, there was no longer any pretense that this was to be a meeting where they simply sat back and talked. How do you put your feet up when the deck beneath you is trembling and the winds are howling, in Marsaxlokk Bay and throughout the tattered Soviet empire? This first Bush-Gorbachev summit, which the American President initially proposed as a way to restart the becalmed U.S.-Soviet relationship, was now also the first to take place in the uncertain new world ushered in by the upheavals shaking Eastern Europe. And if this meeting was to be a step in shaping the future, there could be no more appropriate setting than at sea, even a sea as wild as the one last weekend around Malta. In a world that seemed to be dissolving, where better to meet than in a place with no boundary lines, no familiar landmarks — and no firm footing?
(Time – edição datada de 11.12.1989 – publicada a 05.12.1989)
Entry filed under: Internacional, Sociedade. Tags: Berlim.
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