Twilight 2000 2nd Edition/1992

• In March, NATO, Warsaw Pact and Germany agree to the Rhineland Compromise, which will see NATO forces in the Rhineland for five years
  • The force is to be made up of one division each from the United Kingdom and France, two divisions from the United States, and a brigade each from Belgium and the Netherlands
  • NATO's forces will form five corps (two US, one each British, French and Benelux) in three armies (US 7th, BAOR, French 1st)
• The Albanian communist government falls after a civil war, replaced by a caretaker military regime
  • Albanian, Croatian and Serbian nationalists demonstrate throughout Yugoslavia. The government response is careful and low-key, but firm
• "Europe 92" is put on hold after the German government requests the temporary postponement of the single European currency and other economic reforms
• The Soviet Union suffers some major setbacks in dealing with the unrest in Central Asia
  • TASS accuses Iran of supplying arms to rebels in Central Asia and Caucasus. The Islamic fundamentalists start to grow in strength, and some start to call it a civil war
• President Aquino is re-elected in the Phillipines by a narrow margin
• In the US, President Bush decides not to run for re-election due to health issues. John Tanner, a Democrat from California, wins the election
  • Tanner's vice president, Deanna Pemberton, is the first woman to hold such a high office in the US
• In North Korea, increasing numbers demand Soviet-style reform and German-style reunification with the South
  • Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Sung's son, who took over after his father's death, reacts with token reform measures