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...critical moment in the transformation of U.S.-Soviet relations came on Nov. 16, just over two weeks before the meeting in the Med. That was the day Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney announced that because the Warsaw Pact was becoming "a very different animal," the U.S. could reduce its defense spending. For the Kremlin, it was the best news out of Washington in years, and not just for the obvious reason that less is better where the other superpower's arsenal is concerned. As seen from Moscow, the eventual military consequences of the Pentagon cuts are less important than...
...president spoke as Gorbachev was convening a meeting of a radically reordered Warsaw Pact in Moscow to review the weekend summit...
...dramatic change in Europe continued uninterrupted during the day, as the Soviet Union and the four other Warsaw Pact nations condemned their own invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In Leipzig, East Germany, about 200,000 demonstrators broke into wild rounds of applause as speakers called for German reunification...
Barring a utopian development, Bush said, "theUnited States must stay involved" by keepingtroops massed against Warsaw Pact forces...
...that Washington is ready to make deeper cuts in military expenditures -- and by extension, in U.S. troops stationed in Europe -- than it had previously contemplated. Said Cheney: "It's clear that the likelihood of all-out conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, is probably lower now than it's been at just about any time since the end of World...