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WASHINGTON, D.C: Shades of Boutros-Boutros Ghali. The U.S. insists that the first round of NATO expansion include just three countries: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. "The United States position is firm," said White House press secretary Mike McCurry. Though most NATO members would prefer to include Romania and Slovenia as well, the dispute is not critical. Fearing that including all five of the key nominees would make it harder to achieve the next round of NATO expansion, leaving countries like Albania out in the military alliance cold, Clinton wants to make two strong candidates wait. At NATO headquarters...
...foreign ministers are divided on whether the first round of NATO expansion should take in three or five of the eleven countries interested in joining. One senior NATO official said talks are stalling over whether to invite just Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic or to add Slovenia and Romania as well. While the U.S. has not publicly said which countries it is backing for membership, officials say privately that they prefer to start with just Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The reason, reports TIME's Douglas Waller, is that the U.S. wants to admit a small number...
...historical period has managed to destroy in such a subtle way the infrastructure of a society. The destruction of intellectuality, the politicization of literature, the censorship of religion and the fabrication of history and tradition that resulted from the Communist regime will have lasting effects on the future of Romania...
...Romanians have been the victims of an ideological system that degraded the real meaning of volunteerism by distortion and overemphasis. In the first years of Communism, Romania's civil society boomed of willingness to volunteer. At the end of World War II, thousands of young men and women joined groups of brigadiers organized by the State to build roads and railroads. They worked with joy and built some of the best passageways in the country...
Such enforcement contradicts the very nature of volunteer work, thus degrading its noble meaning. Presently, the real effects of the Communist system on Romania's civil society are more apparent than ever. Romania is in the process of democratization and transition to an open-market economy. This painful process is forcing the society to redefine its values...