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...that the former East bloc is no longer the enemy, U.S. intelligence is learning plenty about the other sideUs successes in turning Americans into traitors. Several onetime Warsaw Pact nations have opened espionage files to the U.S. According to FBI counterintelligence chief Wayne Gilbert, most of the suspected traitors identified are U.S. military personnel. Cases will begin going to grand juries in the coming months...
...taxes" pledge and 20 points in opinion polls for a deficit-cutting budget deal with the Democrats, a sound attempt to lower short-term interest rates, stimulate savings and investment and boost Americans' stagnant standard of living. Less than two years later, Bush is abandoning that pact, convinced that re-election is more important than deficits. The budget he presented last week envisions a deficit of $352 billion for the next fiscal year, followed by shortfalls in the $200 billion range...
...satellites have provided the best way to peek at what the other side is doing. Gorbachev quipped that U.S. military satellites could read the license plates on Moscow cars. But bad weather can block the view from space: airplanes would be better. Members of NATO and the former WARSAW PACT countries are close to an unprecedented agreement to permit regular verification flights over one another's territory. Come in, O'Hare! Requesting permission to land. I'm out of film...
...formulation likely to strike moralists on both sides as waffling pure and simple. On foreign policy, he takes an internationalist line, agreeing with Bush on some matters but flaying him on others, notably for continuing "to coddle China." On trade, he is generally antiprotectionist and favors a free- trade pact with Mexico. But he has said the U.S. should tell the Japanese that "if they don't play by our rules, we'll play by theirs...
...loopholes in the proposed accord could make it meaningless. Precisely which sites will be open to inspection and how the monitors will operate are questions that have not been resolved. The Prime Ministers of the two Koreas expect to close the holes and sign a formal pact later this month. Even so, the agreement still fails to commit North Korea either to signing the International Atomic Energy Agency's nonproliferation treaty or to IAEA inspections...