Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Germany's neighbors sometimes make about Kohl is that he is preoccupied with domestic politics and lacks vision. But it seems an odd charge to lay against a man dedicated to expanding the Atlantic alliance and making the European Union live up to its name. "Germany," says a senior NATO official in Brussels, "is probably the only major country that is whole- heartedly committed to both NATO and the European Union." Germans must realize, Kohl said last week, that their new unity "will be wasted if we don't press ahead in parallel with European unity...
Similarly, Kohl likes NATO so much he wants to see it grow bigger. He is uncomfortable with Germany's exposed position on the frontier between the solidity of NATO and the uncertainty of what used to be the Warsaw Pact. He would like to move NATO's border east, embracing Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, even in the face of vehement opposition from Russia. On that score he may face Washington's displeasure too, even if Bill Clinton did say when he visited Germany last July, "I always agree with Helmut...
Above all, there is Iran, the region's other unstable element. When the Gulf War's outcome was certain in 1991, every state in the area feared Iraq's fragmentation. Turkey, a NATO ally, was worried that Iraq's Kurds would form an independent nation and incite Turkey's own 10 million Kurds to rebellion. But the larger fear was an extension of Tehran's influence via the establishment of an Islamic fundamentalist state carved from southern Iraq. That entity, bordering Kuwait, would threaten all the gulf emirates and the oil-rich eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Which...
...liberation theologian. His people are starved for freedom. Neither will long tolerate -- let alone express gratitude for -- foreign domination. No one does. In 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered American troops -- successors of the D-day soldiers who had liberated France from Hitler and were now part of NATO -- to get out of France. "Do you want us to move American cemeteries out of France as well? asked Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
Bosnian Serbs fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a French armored personnel carrier on U.N. peacekeeping duty outside Sarajevo, wounding a French soldier. In retaliation for that attack and three others by the Bosnian Serbs, three NATO jets destroyed a Bosnian Serb tank that had violated the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. Attempting to further isolate the Bosnian Serbs from their longtime backers in Serbia, the U.N. Security Council voted to ease minor sanctions against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia. The move came after Serbia's President agreed to enforce an embargo on the shipment of war supplies to the Serbs...