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...Communist-led government in East Berlin, which previously argued for a separate socialist existence in some kind of confederal relationship, has thrown in its hand. Unification is possible, Prime Minister Hans Modrow says, but only if the newly formed state remains neutral, unaffiliated with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Bonn and its allies reject that idea but counter with one presented by Genscher. A unified Germany should remain in NATO, he proposed, but allied troops or military structures should stay out of the areas that are now East Germany. In Moscow for his own set of talks, U.S. Secretary...
...three countries will be seeking greater financial assistance from the U.S. Colombia will request trade preference for its $200 million annual export of cut flowers and a revival of the international coffee pact that lapsed last July, costing the country some $400 million. Also on the Latin leaders' wish list...
...planning to fight the last war. American military men are no different; for 45 years they have prepared for a Soviet version of the blitzkrieg. Panama, Grenada, Libya, even Korea and Viet Nam were all essentially sideshows. The Big One, if it ever came, would begin with the Warsaw Pact's tank and armored columns charging across the Fulda Gap into West Germany, starting a conflict that could escalate to a nuclear Armageddon. The effort to deter or defeat a Soviet invasion of Western Europe shaped almost everything about the U.S. military establishment: manpower requirements, weapons design, budget requests...
Such thinking seems curiously out of tune with the world as it looks in 1990. The Warsaw Pact, for all practical purposes, is dead as a military alliance. Soviet troops might have to fight their way through Warsaw, Prague and even Berlin before getting anywhere near the Fulda Gap, much less Bonn, Rotterdam or Paris. And while the Soviets were long considered capable of mobilizing for a strike at Western Europe in as little as 14 days, Pentagon analysts say that NATO could now detect preparations a month in advance. Some outside experts argue that signs of war would...
...military planners call "a diminished threat perception" in the West. They fear that this will lead to a precipitous and unwarranted U.S. withdrawal from Europe, whose defense accounts for about 24% of the annual $286 billion Pentagon budget. "What we consider to be the immediate threat from the Warsaw Pact has receded," says NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner. "We have to base our security preparations not on the intentions of the other side but on the potential...