Word: nato
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Remember the uproar about Hillary Clinton's headbands and changing hair style? This ethos of personal criticism isn't limited to the United States. NATO allies expressed disapproval of Mrs. Clinton's attire on a goodwill tour she gave. She received her harshest criticism in Italy for looking lackluster next to a high-level official's wife, a former super-model...
...both houses of parliament in a nationally televised State of Russia address, Yeltsin provided a long and unsparing litany of Russia's ills. The president covered them all: from unpaid taxes to unpaid wages, from crime and poverty in the streets to corruption in the government, from an expanding NATO and a crumbling military to Chechnya, the tiny republic yearning to wriggle free. But the centerpiece of Russian renewal, Yeltsin insisted, must be filli ng the national coffers--and improving their distribution. To that end, he announced that "taxation reform is my economic task for this year" and made...
Diplomats say in private that he questions the prevailing wisdom in the Russian leadership, which holds that the main challenge to Russia comes from the West and nato's enlargement. Berezovsky is said to argue that the real long-term threat to Russia comes from the Islamic world...
MOSCOW: Faced with the likelihood of NATO expansion, Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov spent a Friday meeting with Madeleine Albright trying to win as many concessions as possible before giving in. Russia has begun to weaken, but still remains officially opposed to NATO's eastward move. "We are still negatively disposed," Primakov said after the meeting. But, in a significant departure from earlier claims, he added that Russia now wants only "a voice, not a veto" in the NATO alliance. Primakov has taken a hard line toward NATO expansion ever since taking over Andrei Kozyrev, whom Russian critics had accused...
...would have made her dour predecessor Warren Christopher cringe, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright declared at the start of her first overseas tour that "the Albright Express is launched." The new Secretary faces a challenging agenda. In Europe, she aims to develop a consensus among U.S. European allies on NATO policy toward Russia, soothe Moscow's worries over the July kick-off of NATO's eastward expansion and size up the chances that an ailing President Boris Yeltsin will be able to see an agreement through. Then, on a whirlwind tour of South Korea, Japan and China, she will stress...