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...with East and West Germany on the verge of merging into one country, the case is overshadowed and treated as a footnote to history, an almost quaint reminder of a vanishing John le Carre world in which secrets about NATO military maneuvers were of supreme importance to a Warsaw Pact nation. As Eastern Europe breaks free of Moscow's grip and the Soviet Union itself enjoys unprecedented openness, the espionage world is undergoing its own momentous changes...
...Estonians contend that, technically speaking, they are not seceding. They are simply restoring the sovereignty that Moscow guaranteed them "unconditionally and for all time" in 1920 -- then violated under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which led to Stalin's annexation of the Baltics. Estonian legislators want the issue of independence placed on the agenda for a Helsinki conference that Gorbachev has proposed to lay the foundation for his much touted "common European home." Legalists in Tallinn cite the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, which guaranteed the country's neutrality in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops...
...press conference in southern Africa, I was asked a similar question. I said we are a hospitable nation, and we invite a new united Germany to join the Warsaw Pact. Why not? That would be an interesting, unorthodox option. But, it is said, that would not suit the West...
...about having a neutral state in the heart of Europe with a status that would be acceptable to all in East and West? There are also some unexpected options to think about: for example, a new united Germany with responsibilities to both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. There are possibilities for discussion here...
...would this dual responsibility to NATO and the Warsaw Pact work...