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...member of NATO, which is undergoing a post-cold war identity crisis, and the E.C., which is trying to keep the Maastricht treaty from unraveling, Greece has extra leverage these days on both sides of the Atlantic. In the U.S. it has the additional help of the powerful Greek-American lobby...
...regional integration, and that of politics, in which at present the reality of fragmentation seems to be gaining the upper hand. In this context, French voters had a responsibility that went well beyond France and its position within the new Europe. The issue could be summarized as follows: In post-cold war Europe, will democracy and stability spread from West to East, or will fractionalization, with all the strains it is likely to engender for the Continent and its people, spread from East to West...
...that was emphatically not what Bush had in mind. He has identified "instability" as the greatest threat to world peace in the post-cold war era. He sees the global contagion of secessionism as profoundly destabilizing. In three cases that came to a head last year -- Iraq, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union -- Bush instinctively sided with the central governments, no matter how unpopular and repressive, against separatists...
...build a $155 million paint facility at its Moraine assembly plant. But the real key to Montgomery's economic endurance is the nearby Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, the largest in the nation, with 28,000 employees and a payroll of $968 million a year. As part of its post-cold war consolidation, the Pentagon in July officially merged the Air Force Systems Command and the Logistics Command into a new Air Force Material Command, headquartered at Wright-Patterson...
...already learned at least half the lesson. His decision to send Secretary of Transportation Andrew Card to Florida to mastermind relief efforts suggested that even he didn't think FEMA was up to the job. Florida's senior Senator urges a rethinking of military involvement. "In the post-cold war era, this could be an important new function for the military," says Democrat Bob Graham, "not something done after hours, but as an ongoing significant part of the military task...