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Ending a six-week vacuum at its top post, NATO named Javier Solana of Spain as the new secretary-general of the 16-nation alliance. The choice closes a difficult period for the Alliance that started when Willy Claes was forced to resign October 20 in connection with a government corruption scandal in his native Belgium. After the nominations of former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and former Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen were blocked, Solana emerged as the favorite last month. TIME's Jane Walker reports that the choice of Solana, a former history professor and Spain...
...Frontera Norte and a professor at Indiana's University of Notre Dame. ``We make money from our proximity, but the power is asymmetrical. The U.S. is boss. It calls the shots, and it wants us on our knees before it will deal with us.'' Adds former Foreign Minister Fernando Solana: ``I congratulate Clinton for being clever. He is helping U.S. investors who made a fortune on Mexico's high- interest rates, but now do not want to assume that risk...
...long as Israel gives it some cover by creating a process to review the cases. "No one should expect a dramatic breakthrough in which 396 people go home tomorrow," says a U.S. official. Creating his own version of "Read my lips," Rabin told visiting Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana, "Write this down. The ((deportation)) decision is irreversible...
Throughout the speech Solana repeatedly emphasized the significance of Mexico's sovereignty in its relationship with the United States...
...President Salinas de Gortari likes to insist that Mexico has decided to change, [but] to continue to be Mexico," said Solana, refering to the recent political liberalization in Mexico and to the rising tension in the relationship between the two neighboring countries...