Word: warsaw
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NATO allies? Well, not yet, but the door to the Atlantic alliance is opening, and the former Warsaw Pact nations, eager to enlist, could join before the turn of the century. Sounds like a good idea, bringing all of the Continent under one protective umbrella. But if the U.S. and its NATO allies would not fight for blood-soaked Bosnia and Herzegovina, will they do so for Hungary? How about Poland in a clash with Russia? Do the Atlantic democracies have the will and the resources to spread their security guarantees over Central and Eastern Europe, taking on the unending...
That hard line showed up first in the form of a Yeltsin flip-flop on the notion of an expanded NATO. During an August visit to Warsaw, he had declared that Polish membership in the alliance "would not be counter to Russian interests." That was taken as a green light for drawing much of the old East bloc into the alliance, and Western policy planners immediately went to work on mechanisms for membership. First to join would be the so-called Visegrad countries -- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary -- probably by the end of the '90s. Then might come...
...about moving NATO eastward," says former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. "We should not exclude Russia." Among the few remaining advocates of early enlargement are the hapless Central European countries with better reasons than Russia to fear for their security. Yeltsin's flip-flop caused acute anxiety in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest. "Poland's striving toward NATO is irreversible," said Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski. "We are against placing Poland in the gray zone between East and West...
...Poland ex-communists made significant gains in last week's parliamentary elections. And in most of the onetime member states of the Warsaw Pact, parties dominated by repackaged communists remain a surprisingly significant force in democratic legislative politics...
...used to work for the first directorate of the KGB, defected about a year ago. But they say Kessler's figures are "highly exaggerated." The defector did have access to hundreds of names, but they included both Americans and non-Americans and were drawn from both KGB and Warsaw Pact files. More important, the great majority were innocent contacts. Only about a dozen cases of suspected espionage originating with this particular defector are being investigated...