Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aspin, sat down at a horseshoe-shaped table for elegantly served courses of mushroom soup, venison and wild rice, accompanied by Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Since it was a seminar as well as a dinner, guest experts talked while the others ate, giving prepared comments on the future of NATO, postelection politics in Russia and the economic stagnation across Europe...
...been overtaken by events, he must set a new course for America and decide how it should relate to its allies and former enemies. For a man who famously prefers domestic to foreign policy, Clinton is engaged in a particularly demanding international agenda this week. At summit meetings with NATO leaders in Brussels, with Central Europeans in Prague and with Boris Yeltsin in Moscow, he intends to take the first steps toward reshaping the entire East-West matrix. It is a task that would challenge a President far more at ease in foreign affairs than...
...POLITICAL INTEREST: The Case for a Bigger NATO...
...aides agree is "right on," is that Clinton "is determined to avoid being tagged with having lost Russia. Yet it should be obvious that democracy in Russia will be won or lost almost exclusively by the Russians themselves." And if reform fails in Russia, says James Baker, an enlarged NATO would at least "protect democracy" where it is showing signs of taking "firm root -- in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest...
...sure, the expansion of NATO is no trifling matter. Extending the free world's nuclear umbrella should never be undertaken idly. But leaving Central Europe in the cold would be an inexcusable folly. Refusing to help these democracies could eventually raise a question as real as the question of losing Russia is phony: Who lost Central Europe...