Word: nato
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This is not exactly what the neighbors had in mind. The very idea of NATO, the E.C. and other postwar institutions has been to lock Germany into a European structure, not the other way around. Last December's E.C. summit in the Dutch city of Maastricht was supposed to nail down the roof of a house that would contain and control Germany as a cooperative, pacific and co-equal member of the European family. But in the aftermath of Maastricht, Germany has broken ranks on issues large and small, upsetting and sometimes frightening its allies...
When Germany unilaterally last month halted all weapons shipments to Turkey, a NATO ally, because some of them had been used against Kurdish rebels, the Turkish reaction was furious. An Istanbul newspaper caricatured Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher wearing a swastika, and Turkish President Turgut Ozal darkly warned that "Germany changed a lot after unification. It is as if it is trying to intervene in everything, interfere with everyone, trying to prove it is a great power. In the past, Hitler's Germany did the same thing." The attack was intemperate and unfair -- it was Turkey that had been behaving...
Though Baker gets credit in European capitals for pushing early for German unification, he is criticized by some Europeans for insisting that NATO remain the main vehicle for the exercise of American influence on the Continent. There is also concern that the U.S. is too inattentive to the volatile situations in central and southeastern Europe and unresponsive to the huge problems of the former Soviet Union. It was mid-December by the time Baker got around to calling for an international conference to help the new republics through the winter. Last month he dashed through half a dozen former Soviet...
...will hold another round of talks on March 10 on the sidelines of a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels, a U.S. official said...
...spring. Until now, spy satellites have provided the best way to peek at what the other side is doing. Gorbachev quipped that U.S. military satellites could read the license plates on Moscow cars. But bad weather can block the view from space: airplanes would be better. Members of NATO and the former WARSAW PACT countries are close to an unprecedented agreement to permit regular verification flights over one another's territory. Come in, O'Hare! Requesting permission to land. I'm out of film...