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...Plan. They said America could be patient if it nurtured alliances based on consent, because such alliances would outlast the Soviet bloc, which was held together by brute force. Thus, NATO. And they said America could be patient abroad if it democratically solved problems at home, something the Soviet Union could not do. After the Soviets launched Sputnik, John F. Kennedy said America's cold war struggle depended on American kids learning science. "Every ... measure ... to improve self-confidence, discipline, moral and community spirit," wrote George Kennan, Truman's head of policy planning, "is a diplomatic victory over Moscow...
...bring the remaining war-crimes suspects, such as General Ratko Mladic, to justice. We're alone, but we shouldn't feel lonely. One aspiration still binds the scattered remains of the former Yugoslavia, despite all the blood spilled in the last century: we all want to join the European Union. It is not going to be easy, and E.U. Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn predicts that it might take the best part of the decade to get there. "Accession is no Eurostar train. It is more like a local train, chugging along," Rehn told Time. It may be a rusty collection...
Montenegro voted last week to split from Serbia, ending the last union between states of the former Yugoslavia. Nationalists in the Balkan republic (celebrating at left), which hopes to join the European Union, aren't alone in their secessionist spirit. Here are six other territories with aspirations to join the countries club...
...past year, chasing rebels and apprehending or even killing them, but the force lacks the numbers to impose complete order. Congolese troops who are supposed to be helping the U.N. peacekeepers have proved ineffective and corrupt and have been hampered by slow and often nonexistent wages. The European Union is working on ensuring that salaries and rations get to Congo's soldiers, and there has been some improvement. But corruption is still a big problem. A Western official in Kinshasa, Congo's capital, estimates that at least $3.2 million of the $8 million a month budgeted for Congo's military...
...rule, first as the private possession of King Leopold II of Belgium and then as a Belgian colony, Congo won its independence in 1960. But within months its first elected Prime Minister had been killed by Belgium- and U.S.-backed opponents because of his growing ties to the Soviet Union, an assassination that eventually opened the way for army general Mobutu Sese Seko to grab power. A U.S. favorite during the cold war, Mobutu presided over one of the most corrupt regimes in African history, siphoning off billions from state-owned companies and allowing most of the country to languish...