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...global responsibilities are greatly reduced now," says Joshua. M. Epstein, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C. think-tank. "Europe used to be 60 percent of our defense spending. By comparison to the Warsaw Pact, Iraq is not that...
...walrus- mustachioed intellectual; the hated Gero was replaced by Janos Kadar. Nagy tried to slow the revolution, but the street crowds kept applying pressure. He agreed to take noncommunists into his government. Going further, he formally asked the Soviets to leave, announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and asked the U.N. to guarantee his country's neutrality. On Oct. 29, it was announced that the Soviets had begun withdrawing from Budapest...
Anxiety is widespread in the countries of the old Warsaw Pact. Governments there do not seriously expect Moscow to attempt to reduce them to satellites once again, but they are nervously aware that the Soviet army has not yet gone home. There are 360,000 Soviet troops in Germany, 50,000 in Poland, 15,000 in Czechoslovakia and 20,000 in Hungary. "They might decide to 'reinforce' them," frets a senior Hungarian diplomat. Last week Warsaw anxiously asked Moscow to pull its forces out by the end of this year, but the Kremlin balked, saying the forces must remain until...
Last week the Communist Youth organ Komsomolskaya Pravda baldly confirmed that the military had shifted thousands of tanks and artillery pieces across the Urals into Soviet Asia to spare them from the destruction required under the pact. Economist V. Litov, an international-affairs specialist, wrote in the conservative daily Sovietskaya Rossiya that the moves were needed to "correct the errors" of Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Litov called on legislators to reject the conventional-arms treaty. But Soviet diplomats were aghast. Said the liberal paper Moscow News: "The situation has given rise to understandable fears in the West about...
...dockworkers, the cocaine traffic was back to preinvasion levels and, if anything, "more open and abundant than before." American officials believe that the Panamanian banking industry still serves as a Laundromat for the hemisphere's cocaine profits, but the U.S.-installed government of Guillermo Endara is resisting a pact that would help catch drug-money depositors...