Word: madrid
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...struggle, the long, bitter cold war, has ended, and the architects of security are back at their drawing boards. They are trying to seal peace and stability into Europe's future and, although they don't say so very loudly, hedge against the rise of a vengeful Russia. In Madrid this week, a summit meeting of the 16 nations of NATO is starting to enlarge and reshape what is now usually described as the most successful alliance in history. The question is whether it will continue...
...they're sure. In the current issue of Science, Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, of Madrid's Center for Scientific Investigation, and his colleagues maintain that their fossils belong to a new, possibly cannibalistic species of early man that roamed Europe nearly 800,000 years ago. Called Homo antecessor (from a Latin word meaning "explorer"), this creature may be the last common ancestor shared by modern humans and Neanderthals...
...fitting, even if only a coincidence, that the new millennium arrives along with a series of momentous European decisions and deadlines. Next month in Madrid a NATO summit meeting will invite at least three former Warsaw Pact members to join the Western alliance in 1999. Next spring the European Union will begin organizing the monetary union for its start in 1999 and open talks with Central and Eastern European countries that want to join...
...that Russia has reluctantly endorsed NATO expansion, members are turning to what could be the more difficult task of deciding just which countries will be the first to join the alliance. At a meeting in Portugal to determine which new members will be 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...
...Boris Yeltsin will meet in Paris on May 27 to sign the accord, which will establish a NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council to 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...