Word: nato
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...bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz says. "China is trying to build a predictable and peaceful relationship along all of its borders. Beijing wants to assure a peaceful environment so it can focus on economic modernization. For Yeltsin, it is important to have peace in the east while he deals with NATO expansion on his western border." While the border agreement is the most significant of the deals reached by Yeltsin and Jiang during the summit, the two leaders also reached common ground on a number of other issues, including increased communication and cooperation in developing nuclear energy. Increasing the $5.5 billion...
...election issue as much as possible. "Clinton handled the situation very well," Donnelly says. "He stressed his relationship with Yeltsin and the progress Yeltsin has made with reform efforts without overtly saying the communists would not achieve those goals." Clinton and Yeltsin tried to avoid controversial issues such as NATO expansion, the war in Chechnya, and the sale of nuclear technology to Iran. "For Russians, it is pleasing to see a Western leader like Clinton not criticize Russia for doing something wrong," Donnelly says. "Clinton was very careful not to harp on Russia over the economy, foreign policy or Chechnya...
...West can best help those countries by involving them in NATO," Baker said...
...time the guinea pigs of 1999 graduate from Harvard, the hope is that even the memories of distinct house characters will be secondary and vague--and all the students of Harvard will be living together in true harmony. (If only NATO could randomly assign housing...
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina: U.S. troops will take on a new task in Bosnia this week as peacekeepers will provide security for U.N. war crimes investigators. NATO's commander in Bosnia does not expect any major confrontations during the search for mass graves and other atrocities near Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia. 'There may be some demonstrations," Adm. Leighton Smith said. "This obviously is a very emotional issue. But I don't anticipate that there will be problems" for the American troops. The investigators will begin examining graves on Tuesday for planned excavation. Reports that thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered...