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...Latin America to reassess the value of swallowing bitter economic reforms in the hope of gaining greater access to rich markets. It would also call into question the U.S. ability to deliver uncontroversial trade agreements and undermine U.S. efforts to spur economic growth through a new world-trade pact...
...plan the organization's march eastward. The meeting, Secretary of State Warren Christopher told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, will "formally open the door to an evolutionary process of NATO expansion." He had just returned from an eight- day trip to the old Warsaw Pact countries to "renew" NATO and polish a plan to enlist those former Soviet satellites that are making visible progress toward democracy. "The alliance must embrace innovation or risk irrelevance," he reported to Congress. He even discussed the proposed expansion with Boris Yeltsin and found the Russian President "very positive...
...long ago, when the Berlin Wall, the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union were all collapsing, many experts thought NATO had served its purpose and its demise would soon follow. Now the East Europeans are clamoring for protection from -- depending on their location -- Russia, Germany, Ukraine or one another. The preferred solution of each is full NATO membership, an ambition that could mesh with the West's desire to find a post-cold war role for the alliance and a new world order that works...
...fact, the former Warsaw Pact countries make little secret that what they want most is protection -- mainly against Russia. After the armed insurrection in Moscow last month, the Polish government's National Security Office publicly admonished, "Recent events in Russia are the latest indication of the importance and significance of our future membership in NATO." In private, senior Polish and Hungarian diplomats worry aloud about possible trouble not only from Russia, but also from a nuclear-armed Ukraine, which they say is "as dangerous as the Russians," and from Germany, which they still do not trust...
Does it make sense for the Warsaw Pact states to join NATO...