Konrad Adenauer to a central position in Europe, presiding over the German Economic Miracle. He was a driving force behind West Germany becoming the first German state to re-establish a national military (the "Bundeswehr") in 1955. He came to terms with France, which made possible the economic unification of Western Europe. Adenauer opposed rival East Germany and made his nation a member of NATO and a firm ally of the United States. Adenauer, who was Chancellor until age 87, was dubbed "Der Alte" ("the elder"). British politician and historian Roy Jenkins says he was "the oldest statesman ever to function in elected
The Guess Who Carter in 1991. A new Guess Who studio album on Aquarius, "Liberty" (also issued as "Lonely One" on the US Intersound label), with Terry Hatty singing, was released in July 1995. As with "Guess Who 87", virtually no attention was paid to it in the mainstream press and the few reviews of the album were almost all overwhelmingly negative. In May 1997, with their hometown of Winnipeg facing a potentially disastrous flood, Bachman and Cummings reunited in Winnipeg for the first time in ten years in an emotional fund raiser for disaster relief organized by Tom Jackson. In 1997, former