Word: nato
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WASHINGTON, D.C: Shades of Boutros-Boutros Ghali. The U.S. insists that the first round of NATO expansion include just three countries: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. "The United States position is firm," said White House press secretary Mike McCurry. Though most NATO members would prefer to include Romania and Slovenia as well, the dispute is not critical. Fearing that including all five of the key nominees would make it harder to achieve the next round of NATO expansion, leaving countries like Albania out in the military alliance cold, Clinton wants to make two strong candidates wait. At NATO headquarters...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The search for a replacement candidate to head the Joint Chiefs has moved into high gear. Top contenders include Admiral Joseph Lopez, commander of NATO's southern flank; Army General Wesley Clark, commander of U.S. forces in Central and South America; Marine Corps Commandant General Charles Krulak and Army General George A. Joulwan. Defense Secretary Cohen, who must find a suitable nominee before General John Shalikashvili retires from the post in September, has said he would probably send President Clinton a recommendation in a few weeks. But Pentagon officials concede that all potential nominees will face a once...
...almost the same time frame as NATO's move eastward, the European Union is putting together a monetary in-group with a common currency. Again, some countries will get in and some will be left out. This is very much a revolution from above, while ordinary citizens are increasingly rebellious. For the moment they are more resentful of the price of the monetary union--budget cutting and unemployment--than of its audacious surrender of national power. Voters in France, where the jobless rate is 12.8%, made that clear with a massive rebuke to the government of President Jacques Chirac...
...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...
...when the new euro will actually be in Europeans' pockets and checking accounts, some of the eastern states--possibly the same ones that join NATO--may be welcomed into the European Union. This reshaping of the old Continent could turn out to be the first stage of a new unity, as Clinton hopes and predicts. But there is also a risk that it could create a dangerous division of the Continent between nations that are strong and prosperous and those that are weak and fearful...