We explore in a model independent way the possibility of achieving nonsuper
symmetric gauge coupling unification within left-right symmetric models, wi
th the minimal particle content at the left-right mass scale which could be
as low as 1 TeV in a variety of models, and with a unification scale M in
the range 10(5) GeV <M<10(17.7) GeV. [S0556-2821(99)04207-1].