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...leading NATO states like Britain and France are in no hurry to take Poland or Hungary into the alliance, which is above all a military pact. Outgoing Defense Secretary Aspin says he is "uncomfortable with extending security guarantees to new countries while we're cutting the defense budget." If Poland were admitted to NATO, "we would be saying that an attack on Poland would be the same as an attack on New York." A threat to use nuclear weapons to back that up might not be credible, and a conventional defense of Poland against invasion from the east would cost...
After stroking the leaders of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in Prague, Clinton will arrive in Moscow on Wednesday for three days of talks. One person he will not meet is the politician who set off the alarms in Central Europe and a flurry of reconsiderations in Washington: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Moscow's ascendant neofascist. When he learned Clinton would not see him, Zhirinovsky, whose party won about 23% of the popular vote in last month's parliamentary elections, launched into one of his frequent tirades. He said the President's decision showed he was "a coward" who should...
While Clinton will explain the Partnership for Peace as a sop to the likes of Poland and Hungary, he will also have to advise Yeltsin against behaving too aggressively with his neighbors, especially the former Soviet republics Moscow calls "the near abroad." Russia has intervened militarily in Moldova, Georgia and Tajikistan, and is now shaking a fist at Lithuania. If Clinton is to placate Warsaw and Budapest on NATO membership, Yeltsin will have to offer reassurance to Central Europe by dissociating his government more vigorously from resurgent Russian nationalism...
...late 1930s, an Austrian businessman named Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) arrives in Krakow, Poland, intent on making his fortune. He aims, in his own words, to leave with "two steamer trunks full of money." Schindler is a dazzlingly charismatic man, the ultimate seducer, who, according to Spielberg, "romances the entire city of Krakow,...romances the Nazis,...romances the politicians, the police chiefs, the women...
First stop on Zhirinovsky's 10-day tour de farce was the Munich airport, where he met with a leader of Germany's radical right and publicly reaffirmed his desire that Germany and Russia carve up Poland between them. While the German press denounced him as "Russia's Hitler," Zhirinovsky blissfully continued his holiday in a remote village in the Austrian Alps, where he paid a call on his friend Edwin Neuwirth, an industrialist who has denied that the Nazis used gas chambers to kill Jews during World War II and has told reporters he was "proud" to have served...