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PARIS: France says its latest spy scandal won't affect relations with NATO, but don't bet on that. Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine insisted Wednesday that the actions of Pierre Bunel, a senior French officer arrested for passing NATO secrets to the Serbs, are "in no way linked to our policies." That's a relief, since Bunel is suspected of informing the Serbs of NATO's planned targets in Kosovo -- which would have put NATO pilots (including Frenchmen) at risk...
...Bunel is the second French officer exposed for passing secrets to the Serbs -- in April Major Herve Gourmelon was found to have tipped off Bosnian Serbs about planned NATO action. "The Pentagon has had a really jaundiced view of the French for a long time," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. The U.S. has in the past flatly rejected French demands for control of NATO's Southern Command, which has put the process of France's integration into NATO on hold. "Now," says Sanction, "that process will go into the deep freeze...
Burns also focused on military relations. "NATO is the solemn fundamental keystone of our relationship," Burns said...
...China to review U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Saddam hopes to exploit that division to isolate Washington from its Gulf War allies. Russia and pro-Western Arab states will likely be even more strongly opposed to military action than they were last February, while Saddam will have drawn courage from NATO's obvious reluctance to take military action in Kosovo. The policy makers meeting in Washington will be aware that if air strikes could alter the political equation at all, it would probably be in Saddam's favor. And tough sanctions have already been in place for almost eight years. That...
...response to Dan Epstein's "Foggy Thinking in Foggy Bottom" (Opinion, Oct. 23): The efforts of the United States and its NATO allies in inviting three crucial Eastern European nations to join the alliance can scarcely be compared to Nazism. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is crucial that we take steps now to strengthen European security and not abandon our democratic allies so these nations do not succumb to larger powers, as they did before and during World War II. Had the United States taken the kind of the steps it is taking...