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...least conceptually. Its reason for being was to deter the Soviet Union from launching an invasion through West Germany to the English Channel. With that danger diminished to the vanishing point, NATO is already undergoing its own deconstruction, more subtle, dignified and gradual than that of the Warsaw Pact but in the long run just as relentless...
TOKYO--Japanese and U.S. trade negotiators agreed yesterday to drastic economic changes to help cut the $49 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan. Officials said the unprecedented pact would improve the quality of life in both countries...
...worst mistakes after the First World War was the international isolation of the Weimar Republic. I am strictly against repeating that mistake. Germany, and that includes a unified Germany, is part of the Western community of shared values. We cannot accept anything less. It is remarkable that all Warsaw Pact countries except the Soviet Union are for full German membership in NATO. Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia are in favor of it -- unconditionally and completely. Why? Simply because they do not want Germany to be isolated. The U.S., all our other allies and the Germans themselves should raise this issue...
...only from right-wingers -- that he failed to "jam it to them while they're weak," in the words of Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Aspin predicts "potential problems" for both the chemical-weapons treaty signed at the summit and an eventual pact to reduce strategic nuclear warheads. But the biggest trouble at the moment is a bipartisan rebellion against a trade agreement that would grant Moscow most-favored-nation trade status (which actually means access to American markets on terms equal to those enjoyed by most other countries...
...Czechoslovakia the government questioned five former Communist leaders, including General Secretary Milos Jakes, over their role in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of their country. But the move was taken on the eve of the country's first free elections since 1946, and thus was seen as a bit of cheap political opportunism by Civic Forum, President Vaclav Havel's ruling coalition and easy winner at the polls...