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Shevardnadze went public with his intentions in a remarkable mea culpa speech to the Supreme Soviet in October 1989. Reversing a policy of decades of Soviet intervention in Eastern Europe, he vowed that every country in the Warsaw Pact now had "absolute freedom of choice" in politics and government. Not only that, he continued, but by invading Afghanistan "we had set ourselves against all humanity, ignored universal human values." Finally, he said, Moscow planned "to curtail all our military bases as well as our military presence abroad by the year...
...were defused in southern Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia. Negotiations that had been stalled for years or decades , suddenly bore fruit: intermediate-range missiles had already been abolished in 1987, but a treaty mandating major reductions in conventional forces in Europe was signed last month; and the START pact cutting strategic nuclear forces is to be signed in February...
...allies can continue the embargo on military shipments to Iraq and perhaps create a regional security structure. But the Saudis recoil at the prospect of an enduring foreign-troop presence on their soil, even for the purpose of defending their kingdom, and a new region-wide defense pact is easier to conjure than to craft. The Kuwaitis would welcome an American presence indefinitely, but even they would prefer to avoid the complications that would invariably attend an open-ended effort to keep Saddam at home...
...pair get into this charade in the first place? It was, according to the boys, something out of an MTV Oliver Twist -- "a pact with the devil," Pilatus explained. He and Morvan were living a marginal life in a Munich housing project when, in 1988, Farian offered each of them $4,000 (plus subsequent royalties) to be seen but not heard as Milli Vanilli. "We just hope ((our fans)) understand that we were young, that we just wanted to live life the American way," said Pilatus. Some fans don't seem all that sympathetic. Two have filed lawsuits on behalf...
Maybe not, nor a Gorbachev-Yeltsin pact either. -- Thatcher could lose even by winning her Tory contest. -- Putting on the brakes in Saudi Arabia...