Word: nato
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Fallingbostel, West Germany Sept. 29, 1986 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taking no flak last week as she fired a round from a Challenger tank at the nato training ground [where she was visiting British forces]. Decked out in stout walking shoes, flowing scarf and goggles, Thatcher looked like a "cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help of a few tips from the 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took...
...moving closer politically to Europe, while Yushchenko agreed to improve cooperation with Russia - albeit only up to the point that would facilitate Ukraine?s trade with Russia, but won?t hurt Ukraine?s prospects for eventual WTO and EU membership. Both yielded on the divisive issue of Ukraine joining NATO: Yanukovych withdrew his avowed opposition to the move, while Yushchenko agreed to put the issue to a referendum. ?Yanukovych has evolved since December 2004, while Tymoshenko mentally got stuck at the barricades,? comments Nebozhenko...
...plan this week. But its composition, mission and rules of engagement are acutely tricky. Rice declared that no U.S. troops would join; they're already overstretched in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. French President Jacques Chirac said he might be willing to commit French forces, but not through NATO. Soldiers from Muslim countries like Turkey and Egypt would be a plus, but so far none have materialized...
...NATO countries that Israel wants to see populate such a force have no greater appetite than Israel does for a deployment of ground forces in Lebanon. The Europeans are already committed to an increasingly hot counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan, and they're clearly reluctant to send their troops into a confrontation on Israel's behalf with one of the world's most accomplished guerrilla armies - which also happens to have a well-established capacity for transnational terror operations...
...that gives Hizballah a pretext to continue bearing arms against Israel on the grounds it is trying to liberate occupied Lebanese land. Arab officials are suggesting that if the U.S. package deal were to return the Shebaa Farms to Lebanon, perhaps to be used for the base of the NATO force, that would allow the Lebanese government to demand the deployment of the army to replace Hizballah guerrillas, and blame Hizballah - and Iran - for blocking a solution to the crisis. Hizballah would also be able to save face by proclaiming Shebaa liberated by its efforts...