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...history have been overtaken by events, he must set a new course for America and decide how it should relate to its allies and former enemies. For a man who famously prefers domestic to foreign policy, Clinton is engaged in a particularly demanding international agenda this week. At summit meetings with NATO leaders in Brussels, with Central Europeans in Prague and with Boris Yeltsin in Moscow, he intends to take the first steps toward reshaping the entire East-West matrix. It is a task that would challenge a President far more at ease in foreign affairs than...
Clinton's first priority at the NATO summit is to gain final approval for his Partnership for Peace, which will provide an option for any former Soviet republic, Warsaw Pact member or non-NATO West European state to join in limited military cooperation, including training and exercises, with NATO's 16 members. In Warsaw last week General John Shalikashvili, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said NATO will be ready for joint military exercises with Polish forces as early as this year. But while strengthening links, the Partnership will fall far short of full membership...
Though Clinton would rather not hear about Europe's major security failure at the NATO summit he has convened this week, the French government has decided to raise it. France, which has suffered the deaths of 18 soldiers and the wounding of 260 others in the past 18 months, was planning to ask the U.S. to back a proposal that would authorize the U.N. commander to call in air strikes by NATO planes. He would do this at his own initiative if he believed they were needed to protect peacekeepers from attack by the warring parties. "All we are trying...
Boris Yeltsin's government narrowly averted the embarrassment of a newspaper strike, which would have blacked out coverage of the summit. Angered by a directive that could raise the cost of paper and printing services as much as 600%, the editors of some of Moscow's most influential publications accused the government of trying to bankrupt the media and called for a strike during summit week. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin summoned the rebellious journalists to his new office to remind them that they had championed the very market reforms that were pushing them into the red. They relented when Chernomyrdin...
...Administration to pay greater attention to Central Europe, an area the West can influence far more than Moscow. But it isn't. Central Europe's fledgling democracies are suffering from the U.S. obsession with Russia -- as will become abundantly clear next week when the President attends his first NATO summit in Brussels...