Word: dienstbier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dienstbier was quick to say, however, that the transformation would be slow, and that a diminishing role for NATO does not mean a diminishing role for the United States...
...will NATO defend itself against...Havel's Czechoslovakia?" Dienstbier asked...
...fact, Dienstbier said the United States must play a vital role in reconstructing the Eastern European and Soviet economies. He said the United States, which rebuilt post-war Western Europe with the Marshall Plan, should now help the both the burgeoning democracies in the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union...
...Dienstbier quoted Czech President Vaclav Havel's belief that "America can best help [Czechoslovakia] by helping the USSR...
...Dienstbier proposed that Western nations funnel $16 billion in economic aid to the Soviet Union. Over a ten-year period, Dienstbier said, that proposal would promote Eastern European modernization and trade...