Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albert, Frank Gifford, Michael Kennedy and Paula Jones would think that our national pastime was not baseball but the Playboy channel. The day after the Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones' lawsuit could go forward, the story led most major newspapers, above the announcement by Boris Yeltsin at the NATO summit that he would no longer target nuclear missiles at the Western alliance. Peace is at hand, but so what? We've got a woman here saying once again that Clinton came on to her in a hotel room six years...
...Moscow and said, "I now know that I am not the Foreign Minister of a sovereign nation." I had thought while I was sitting there what a long distance we have come. The Soviet Union is no longer. We have just completed a historic signing in Paris of the NATO-Russia Founding Act. And the Czechs are a vibrant sovereign nation...
TIME: With the Soviet Union no longer the enemy, is the threat to Europe now itself? Is that the real reason we need to keep and expand NATO...
...touch of triumphalism echoed over Bill Clinton's visit to Europe last week. While colossal headaches were awaiting him at home, over there it was pure pomp and celebration. On Tuesday at a signing ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris, he portrayed the new agreement between Russia and NATO as the gateway to a golden era of East-West cooperation. In the Hague the next day, he and the assembled leaders of Europe marked the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan--the keystone of it all--with brass bands, dinners and speeches. The next 50 years, said Clinton, should...
While Russian President Boris Yeltsin made the best of his agreement to go along with an expansion of NATO, the theatrical sigh he heaved before signing was not entirely playacting. The fact is that Russia can consult with a growing NATO, but Russia is left out. So are several other countries in Eastern and Central Europe, including the Baltics, that desperately want to get in. NATO members themselves have begun squabbling about which former Warsaw Pact countries will be invited to join and who will pay the costs; the estimate, still only hazy, and probably too low, is about...