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NATO's objective has long been to reduce the number of tanks, guns and soldiers in the Warsaw Pact and thus diminish the threat of a Soviet-led armored blitzkrieg. Mikhail Gorbachev has rendered that nightmare less plausible with the stunning cutbacks and withdrawals that he announced at the United Nations last...
...Warsaw Pact has the bizarre distinction of being the only alliance in history that has occupied or invaded not enemy territory but that of its own member states: East Germany '53, Hungary '56, Czechoslovakia '68. The imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981 was nothing less than a Soviet- backed military coup d'etat within the Communist Party...
...Warsaw Pact is both the symbol and the instrument of Soviet domination over what used to be called the captive nations. Even if the forces of the pact were cut to one-third their current size, they could still "protect the gains of socialism" by "extending fraternal assistance" to a regime facing revolt or collapse...
...gesture fell flat. Under the pact, the pilots, who have given up $164.5 million in wages since 1986, were asked for an additional $64 million a year in concessions. The pilots rejected the contract and threw their support to the I.A.M. members, asserting that the airline's fleet could not be safely maintained during a mechanics' walkout. Said John Bavis, head of Eastern's pilots' union: "What's Lorenzo going to do with 225 airplanes? Take them down to the local Jiffy Lube...
...fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between the U.S.S.R. and Nazi Germany was excused as a "defensive...