Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most important and time-consuming matter discussed by the two leaders was European security. Russia's baby-step concession to join the Partnership for Peace is something, but the continuing divergence of views regarding the U.S. plan to admit new members to NATO is truly troubling. Of the many areas of dispute between Washington and Moscow, NATO's expansion has the greatest potential to rupture relations between the two countries at exactly the moment when the course of Russian democracy (if it can be called that) is on the line...
...NATO's future is, admittedly, not something most people worry about. There are probably more Americans whose dna resembles O.J. Simpson's than can name the 15 other NATO nations the U.S. is sworn to defend. But that doesn't mean the question isn't vital...
With Moscow reflexively fearful of any scheme it can't dominate -- "They're world champions at improving on nightmares," says Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott -- Washington is walking a tightrope of incoherence. Clinton swore again last week that nato will expand, but slowly, so as to avoid a "differently divided Europe." Yet that, of course, is exactly what an enlarged NATO would mean...
Lifting the arms embargo on the Bosnians, as advocated by U.S. Senate majority leader Robert Dole, would necessitate a withdrawal of U.N. troops by NATO forces, a dangerous operation that could prove unpalatable in Washington if it meant sending U.S. soldiers. What's more, it would probably trigger an immediate response from the already heavily armed Bosnian Serbs, resulting in what a U.N. official indelicately calls a "Dolocaust." The Pentagon opposes Dole's plan, and he has postponed bringing it to the Senate floor until June at the earliest. If Congress passes it, which is likely if only to embarrass...
...world of instant communications that cross all frontiers. And in a global marketplace the notion that authoritarian rule can be combined with free enterprise-the notion might be called Lee Kuan Yewism, for Singapore's Godfather-cannot work indefinitely. The U.S. maintains that countries aspiring to membership in nato, in the European Union or in the wider community of developed nations must respect democracy, free enterprise and human rights. But Washington is notably passive in promoting freedom of the press...