A POPULAR song a few years ago envisaged
\"there s a new world comin. \" Is there? As 1992 is
ushered in， the Americas are celebrating the five bun-
dredth anniversary of the discovery of our \"new world.\"
This is also the year the Old World of Western Europe
achieved the biblically predicted consummation of its
apolitical as well as economic reunion. The Treaty of
Rome in thirty-five years has evolved via the European
Common Market into a literal revived Roman Empire.
But in stark contrast what for seventy-four years has been
the USSR is no more. Sitting here in Russia as I am during
the first week of 1，992， U.S. secretary of state James Baker
on \"Pace the Nation\" has warned the world solemnly that
what we had known as the USSR could well be on the
verge of a civil war along the lines of what is happening
in Yugoslavia， the difference being that the contesting
republics could well resort to using some of their stock-
pile of twenty-seven thousand nuclear weapons. Mikhail
Gorbachev agrees， lamenting that such a struggle would
make the Yugoslavian bloodbath like a joke in compari-
son.
So is there a new world comin ? Yes， thank God， it is
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