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...countries of the old Warsaw Pact. Governments there do not seriously expect Moscow to attempt to reduce them to satellites once again, but they are nervously aware that the Soviet army has not yet gone home. There are 360,000 Soviet troops in Germany, 50,000 in Poland, 15,000 in Czechoslovakia and 20,000 in Hungary. "They might decide to 'reinforce' them," frets a senior Hungarian diplomat. Last week Warsaw anxiously asked Moscow to pull its forces out by the end of this year, but the Kremlin balked, saying the forces must remain until its troops in Germany have...
Historically, economic pressures have failed more often than they have succeeded. Usually they were too narrow, like those imposed by the U.S. on Poland after martial law was declared in 1981, or poorly policed, like the U.N. oil and arms embargo directed at South Africa. But the sanctions against Iraq are more potent than any since World War II, says Gary Hufbauer, a professor of international finance at Georgetown University. Everything moving in and out of the country is affected, and much of the world is participating. Observes Hufbauer: "This is isolation of magnificent proportions...
...understand this talk of killing," counters biologist Anna Stanczkowska-Piotrowska of Poland's Agricultural-Pedagogical University. The zebra mussel, she points out, is not without virtues. Its byssuses extrude an adhesive that may have commercial value. Its appetite for foul-smelling algae can markedly sweeten the taste of drinking water. Perhaps most admirable of all, the zebra mussel has performed an act of public service by dramatizing the threat posed by tiny organisms that hitch rides around the world. Both the U.S. and Canada are moving to restrict the discharge of ballast water into the Great Lakes, a measure...
...says. "If there's a question about the moral purpose here, I really urge people to read this report. It's going to have a devastating effect. And there are comparisons between this and what happened when ((Hitler's)) Death's Head Regiment went into Poland. I'm about 200 pages into a 950-page book. It's a history of World War II. And the reason I made reference to the Death's Head Regiment is that it was very clearly spelled out what happened. They came in after the original troops and inflicted the same kind of brutality...
...drummed up financial aid in two forms. One is assistance from economic powers to nations that have incurred heavy losses by joining the embargo against Iraq -- primarily Egypt, Turkey and Jordan but also Syria, Morocco, Algeria and Poland. As of Nov. 30, according to Washington, allies had pledged $13.4 billion to this cause and so far actually paid $6 billion. America has also sought cash and in-kind contributions to defray U.S. military expenses by allied payments into a special Defense Cooperation account. In a manner befitting a computer age, no cash or even paper changes hands; countries merely make...