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Article: We are the world? Mikhail Gorbachev has a dream - which would be a nightmare for the rest of us.(world government)
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- National Review
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- February 26, 1996
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ONE would never know from the list of celebrities attending the recent "State of the World Forum," sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation U.S.A., that there was a time when the subject of a new world order was addressed by serious thinkers. (I have in mind Thomas Hobbes, the Abbe de Saint-Pierre, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and, in his own way, even Karl Marx.) No longer. The topics on the agenda of this San Francisco forum were serious enough -- "Ecology: The New Science of the Sacred," and (presumably in an effort to gain the custom of Hillary Rodham Clinton) "The Global Crisis of Value and the Search for Meaning" -- but, in addition to a handful of Third World ...