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NATO allies? Well, not yet, but the door to the Atlantic alliance is opening, and the former Warsaw Pact nations, eager to enlist, could join before the turn of the century. Sounds like a good idea, bringing all of the Continent under one protective umbrella. But if the U.S. and its NATO allies would not fight for blood-soaked Bosnia and Herzegovina, will they do so for Hungary? How about Poland in a clash with Russia? Do the Atlantic democracies have the will and the resources to spread their security guarantees over Central and Eastern Europe, taking on the unending...
...songs. These pieces were recorded over a three-year span: some in conjunction with Wilson's work in Hamburg, some back in the U.S. with Waits' own band. At the core of Wilson's Black Rider is a Faustian tale of a peasant who makes a pact with the devil. The peasant gets a set of magic bullets, thinking they will enable himto win a marksmanship contest and with it, histrue love; however, the devil has different plans,and the poor peasant goes crazy when the lastmagic bullet kills his beloved. Waits' Far Easternmelodies, punishing staccatos, and derangedwaltzes evoke...
...getting its economic house in order. "We in the South have become so psychologically accustomed to partition that many people refuse to have anything to do with the North," says Garret Fitzgerald, the former Irish Prime Minister who worked out the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement with Margaret Thatcher. That pact gave Dublin a voice in negotiations over the fate of Northern Ireland and provided a new framework for discussing a settlement. But the momentum generated by the agreement has since stalled. "Both governments are to blame for the lack of progress," says Fitzgerald...
...Nuclear Pact with Ukraine
...parties. The goal is to meet all waverers by the end of October. Once a week, Bentsen, Vice President Al Gore, Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and economics counselor Bob Rubin invite to Washington 100 business and opinion leaders -- mostly handpicked by undecided House members -- to learn more about the pact. Every visitor receives a follow-up note from the President and a call from someone in the NAFTA "war room...