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...bipartisan budget deal, which is scheduled to erase the federal deficit by 2002, was the result of summer-long negotiations between Congressional Republicans and the White House. While the legislation contains child tax credits and capital gains tax cuts--longtime Republican priorities--the pact largely reflects the Clinton administration's higher education goals...
...Senators ask, should the new democracies be forced to spend more money for tanks and fighters when they should be improving their roads and water supplies? Most of all, they want to know how much it will cost to bring former Warsaw Pact armies up to NATO standards and whether the European members, present and future, can be counted on to pay their share. "What are we getting ourselves into in terms of costs?" asks Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin...
...admission of former Warsaw Pact member states into NATO represents the organization's response to the end of the cold war and the spread of democracy in Europe. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the U.S.S.R., countries that had been captive nations became sovereign, independent states. They have been holding elections, instituting the rule of law, opening their economies and nurturing a free press...
Although old threats have disappeared or receded, new ones have arisen. More Europeans have died violently in the past five years than in the previous 45. The combination of actual and potential dangers requires a robust, capable collective defense pact, and NATO is the best ever...
...Europe as a whole, to benefit nonmembers as well. In particular, the Madrid Summit will provide an impetus for bolstering the Partnership for Peace, which for the past three years has fostered joint exercises and closer coordination of defense planning among the allies and 27 neutral and former Warsaw Pact states...