Word: nato
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Dole differs from Clinton on the question of expanding NATO too. Dole wants the alliance to admit Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic by 1998, a quicker timetable than the President deems prudent, given Russia's opposition. But Dole goes even further. He also wants the Baltic states in NATO, a step guaranteed to worsen U.S. relations with Moscow. This is a debate worth having, but don't hold your breath. In the current campaign's game of charge and countercharge, sober discussion has taken a back seat...
Phillips would eliminate all direct taxes on wage earners and businesses, do away with civil service and end U.S. participation in the U.N., NATO...
...held under such conditions? Mostly because Bill Clinton wants them. Postponement "would have been an acknowledgment that the [U.S.] troops would have to stay in Bosnia a long time," says Morton Abramowitz, head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Clinton guaranteed Congress that U.S. troops, operating under the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR), would remain in Bosnia for one year. Americans are not particularly attentive to the complexities of foreign affairs, but voters would certainly notice if the timing of withdrawal unraveled. And it would hand Bob Dole and the Republicans a "quagmire" stick to whack Clinton with...
...time being, NATO and IFOR have more immediate concerns, however. On election day as many as 300,000 refugees could try to cross into the towns where they used to live. That promises great volatility and places IFOR in a novel position: acting to support the free movement of peoples. The force has often stood by as Serb thugs, for example, beat up Muslim refugees trying to return home. Such decisions not to intervene came from the highest levels. "The defining moment of the post-Dayton process was the flat refusal of NATO to do anything other than defend itself...
...Didion's narrator is working on a magazine profile of the one person who might be able to save her: State Department troubleshooter Treat Morrison. "This was a man who could pick up the telephone and affect the Dow, reach the Foreign Minister of any one of a dozen NATO countries, the Oval Office itself." Morrison jets to the unnamed island where Elena is waiting to be paid, and the two of them...fall in love. "This is a romance after all," Didion's narrator confesses. It doesn't last long...