Word: nato
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Shelton defended a careful expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the member nations' decision to give Russia a voice in NATO affairs...
...NATO, Shelton said, has transformed from a military alliance designed to respond to crisis into a political alliance designed to "Deter crisis before they escalate...
...than Kennedy's private infidelities was his public policy. He failed to support fully the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and allowed Fidel Castro to establish a beachhead for communism in the western hemisphere. Kennedy did not act effectively when the Berlin Wall was erected, profoundly affecting the NATO alliance, and he increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The consequences of his misguided policies plagued the U.S. long after his brief, disastrous presidency. RICHARD BLAUW South Holland...
...least one group of officials, however, had already pricked up their ears. NATO ministers, meeting with Russian delegates Wednesday in Brussels, are concerned about the state of up to 16,000 tactical warheads still in Moscow?s silos, and want the Russian parliament to stop dragging its feet on ratifying the START II missile reduction treaty. Given that the traditional bugbear of NATO expansion is also on the table, Yeltsin's words look like less of a stumble ? and more a subtle bargaining ploy...
...That's not a very hard case to make," he said, citing a recent survey which found that 63 percent of Americans favored NATO expansion, yet only 10 percent could name a country that would be affected...