Word: czech
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Albright speaks Russian, Czech, Polish and French, allowing her to converse comfortably with diplomats in some of the world's hot spots...
...announced July 8-9 in Madrid, NATO foreign ministers are divided on whether the first round of NATO expansion should take in three or five of the eleven countries interested in joining. One senior NATO official said talks are stalling over whether to invite just Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic or to add Slovenia and Romania as well. While the U.S. has not publicly said which countries it is backing for membership, officials say privately that they prefer to start with just Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The reason, reports TIME's Douglas Waller, is that...
...discuss security issues, without, according to U.S. officials, limiting NATO's authority to station troops or weapons wherever it wishes. Then NATO ministers will gather in Madrid in July and offer membership on NATO's 50th anniversary in 1999 to the former captive nations of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic...
Richard Reti, the great Czech grandmaster of the first half of the 20th century might be though to have proposed an answer in his response to a question as to how many moves he prepared ahead in a chess game. "Only one," he replied, "but it is always the best move...
...today," reports TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "All Primakov could muster in the way of positive developments was that the two of them agreed to disagree on whether NATO was a threat." The two sides are still at odds over military arrangements once NATO adds Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary this summer. While the West has given assurances that only a small number of troops and no nuclear weapons will be deployed in the new member states, Russia is holding out for fewer troops and a military voice in the alliance...