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【文章內容簡介】 s didn39。t count on: Berliner Herz, Berliner Humor, ja, und Berliner Schnauze.[Berliner heart, Berliner humor, yes, and a Berliner Schnauze.178。]In the 1950sIn the 1950s Khrushchev predicted: “We will bury you.”But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and wellbeing unprecedented in all human the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kindtoo little today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with ity and is the nownow the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be ing to understand the importance of hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and political prisoners have been foreign news broadcasts are no longer being economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We wele change and openness。for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human libertythe advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this , open this , tear down this wall!I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent, and I pledge to you my country39。s efforts to help overe these be sure, we in the West must resist Soviet , we must maintain defenses of unassailable we seek peace。so we must strive to reduce arms on both 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS20 nuclear missiles capable of striking every capital in Western alliance responded by mitting itself to a counterdeployment(unless the Soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution)namely, the elimination of such weapons on both many months, the Soviets refused to bargain in the alliance, in turn, prepared to go forward with its counterdeployment, there were difficult days, days of protests like those during my 1982 visit to this city。and the Soviets later walked away from the through it all, the alliance held I invite those who protested thenI invite those who protest todayto mark this fact: Because we remained strong, the Soviets came back to the we remained strong, today we have within reach the possibility, not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time, an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the I speak, NATO ministers are meeting in Iceland to review the progress of our proposals for eliminating these the talks in Geneva, we have also proposed deep cuts in strategic offensive the Western allies have likewise made farreaching proposals to reduce the danger of conventional war and to place a total ban on chemical we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain the capacity to deter Soviet aggression at any level at which it might in cooperation with many of our allies, the United States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiativeresearch to base deterrence not on the threat of offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend。on systems, in short, that will not target populations, but shield these means we seek to increase the safety of Europe and all the we must remember a crucial fact: East and West do not mistrust each other because we are armed。we are armed because we mistrust each our differences are not about weapons but about President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled。Berlin was under today, despite all the pressures upon this city, Berlin stands secure in its freedom itself is transforming the the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place, a revolution marked by rapid, dramatic advances in puters and Europe, only one nation and those it controls refuse to join the munity of in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will bee , thus, represents a moment of in the West stand ready to cooperate with the East to promote true openness, to break down barriers that separate people, to create a safer, freer surely there is no better place than Berlin, the meeting place of East and West, to make a people of Berlin: Today, as in the past, the United States stands for the strict observance and full implementation of all parts of the Four Power Agreement of us use this occasion, the 750th anniversary of this city, to usher in a new era, to seek a still fuller, richer life for the Berlin of the , let us maintain and develop the ties between the Federal Republic and the Western sectors of Berlin, which is permitted by the 1971 I invite : Let us work to bring the Eastern and Western parts of the city closer together, so that all the inhabitants of all Berlin can enjoy the benefits that e with life in one of the great cities of the open Berlin still further to all Europe, East and West, let us expand the vital air access to this city, finding ways of making mercial air service to Berlin more convenient, more fortable, and more look to the day when West Berlin can bee one of the chief aviation hubs in all central our FrenchWith our French and British partners, the United States is prepared to help bring international meetings to would be only fitting for Berlin to serve as the