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...years since Warsaw Pact tanks brought an end to Dubcek's brief experiment with liberalization, the former Communist Party leader, now 67, has been living humbly in Bratislava, working as a minor forestry official until his retirement in 1982, when he turned his attention to gardening. During the same period, Havel has become internationally famous both for his plays, such as The Memorandum and Temptation, and for his role as a leader of Czech dissent...
...Gorbachev has now offered to reduce the Warsaw Pact's conventional forces essentially to parity with NATO's. Isn't that what we've always wanted...
...Mexican official or a papal envoy. But precisely what would be negotiated at such a session remained unclear. Noriega may plan eventually to schedule another presidential election and find another loyalist to serve as his stand-in. Endara and his allies, for their part, are adamant that any pact with Noriega must include his departure...
...conventional-arms reductions that Gorbachev proposed are striking enough: hundreds of thousands of troops on each side and, by Moscow's arithmetic -- which does not come close to agreeing with NATO figures -- slashes of about two-thirds in the number of Warsaw Pact tanks, armored vehicles and artillery pieces. After the reductions, which would be much heavier on the Soviet than the U.S. side, NATO and Warsaw Pact troops and weaponry would supposedly be equalized by 1996-97 at a level a bit below that now fielded by NATO. Still, Gorbachev essentially only filled in the details on a proposal...
...imagine any scenario under which disturbances inside a Warsaw Pact country would require Soviet military intervention...