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Iraq's invasion of Kuwait could also have a welcome effect on American policy, shaking the U.S. once and for all out of its obsession with East-West conflict. In 1955 John Foster Dulles helped create the Baghdad Pact, with headquarters in Iraq. Its mission was to keep the Soviets out of the Middle East. Yet trouble came from within the region and even within the alliance. In 1956 Britain, a member of the pact, joined France and Israel in attacking Egypt. In 1958 a nationalist revolution overthrew the pro-Western monarchy of Iraq. The new regime immediately pulled...
...United Nations, then at the meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. That was the bright spot in last week's scary news. Therein lies the makings of something that Saddam never intended and Dulles would never have foreseen: an anti-Baghdad pact forged in Washington and Moscow -- an unprecedented and highly promising U.S.-Soviet joint venture in regional security...
...agreement boosted De Beers' efforts to strengthen its domination of the worldwide market for uncut diamonds. De Beers already controls 80% of the global trade, and the deal could pressure any restive members to remain within the cartel. The pact with the Soviet Union, which competes with Botswana for the title of No. 1 diamond producer, will raise De Beers' market share to at least...
...that a unified Germany would be a member of NATO and there was no point in discussing it. Now he's showing an ability to compromise." The promise of financial aid helped: having already pledged some $3 billion in credits to Moscow, Kohl agreed to sign a comprehensive economic pact with the Soviet Union...
Nationalist fervor is most intense in the Western Ukraine, in territories largely annexed -- along with the Baltic states -- by the Soviet Union under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In republican elections last March, supporters of the Rukh movement, an umbrella organization for a host of proindependence groups, won a landslide victory in the western section. The radicals did not win a majority of seats in the republic's parliament, but their bloc of more than 100 is sizable enough to prevent the government in Kiev from getting a quorum on key votes...