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...plan the organization's march eastward. The meeting, Secretary of State Warren Christopher told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, will "formally open the door to an evolutionary process of NATO expansion." He had just returned from an eight- day trip to the old Warsaw Pact countries to "renew" NATO and polish a plan to enlist those former Soviet satellites that are making visible progress toward democracy. "The alliance must embrace innovation or risk irrelevance," he reported to Congress. He even discussed the proposed expansion with Boris Yeltsin and found the Russian President "very positive...
There have been other efforts to improve the department's communications operation. In January, the department lost one of its radio channels when it refused to renew its license with the federal government...
Another campaign promise went the way of NASA's Mars probe when Clinton decided to renew China's most-favored-nation trade status with the U.S., though he insisted on human rights progress in the future. To prove how seriously they take Clinton's threats, the Chinese sentenced a journalist to life imprisonment for giving a Hong Kong newspaper an advance copy of an official speech. Meanwhile, Beijing celebrated the growing freedom in China with a bid to host the 2000 Olympics...
Carol Moseley Braun embarrassed the Senate and persuaded over 30 senators to reverse their earlier vote to renew a patent on the Confederate flag. An angry and increasingly immature Jesse Helms threatened to sing Dixie until Sen. Moseley Braun cried, and then challenged her credentials as a genuine descendant of slaves. No one investigated Helms' own lineage to see if he is a genuine descendant of slaveowners...
...imagery; the best of them have a comic grace and a needling mysteriousness that are entirely their own. Yet it is hard to shake the feeling that, like all kinetic art, they are limited by their programs, so that once you have seen them shake their stuff they cannot renew themselves, as painting and static sculpture can, the second time around...