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Time and again, Polish leaders emphasized the depth of that worry. Last week Mazowiecki said Poland would prefer to have "only its own armed forces on its territory." But Polish membership in the Warsaw Pact, he added, "is important for the security of our borders." Bronislaw Geremek, parliamentary leader of Solidarity, puts it more bluntly: "The only way to change the border...
...desperate for a CFE agreement," said a senior Administration official. "It's a matter of economic life or death." Some observers in the East speculated less charitably that the Soviet leader wanted to cut a troop deal to camouflage the impending eviction of Soviet forces from several Warsaw Pact nations...
OPEN SKIES. Based on an Eisenhower-era proposal that Bush resurrected last May, the proposed agreement would allow unarmed aircraft from any NATO or Warsaw Pact country to overfly the other side's territory. The purpose is to observe military activity and installations. Detractors of the Open Skies concept point out that the agreement provides for a notification period of 16 hours, affording ample opportunity for the concealment of many kinds of mischief. But the proposal is viewed as a useful confidence-building device by all 23 nations involved. Negotiators hope to have a document ready for signing...
...that was the postwar world; this is the post-cold war world, and things are dizzyingly different. Europe has been transformed by the retreat of Soviet imperial power, the collapse of Communist governments in the center of the Continent and the evaporation of the Warsaw Pact. The blinding pace of events actually accelerated last week, clearing the way for the unification of Germany, a new European security system and a 35-nation conference to ratify the reconstruction -- all before the end of this year...
Since that wall was breached in November, German unification has usually been described as inevitable. Now it is considered imminent. NATO and Warsaw Pact Foreign Ministers gathered last week in Ottawa to discuss and quickly agree to Open Skies, a newly revived Eisenhower-era proposal that will allow unarmed planes to monitor military activities throughout the two alliances. Even as the formal meetings were going on, ministers of the two Germanys and the four victorious Allies of World War II, which retain some legal rights in Germany because no peace treaty has ever been signed, ran an almost continuous series...