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STUTTGART, Germany: What will NATO do when the Warsaw Pact is gone? U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher proposed Friday that the western military alliance sign up Russia and the former Soviet allies, its former opponents. Christopher is not offering Russia full NATO membership, but rather wants NATO's charter to reflect standing arrangements for consultation and cooperative action between Russia and the alliance, including joint training and involvement of Russia in peacekeeping activities. While Christopher might be trying to compensate a Russia nervous about NATO's continuing campaign to bring Eastern European nations into the alliance...
...mystery of who could have done such a thing. It will also allow the legal wrangling to begin. Aviation disaster lawyers say that if investigators cannot determine the precise cause of the crash, victims' families will be unable to collect more than the $75,000 maximum liability permitted under Warsaw Convention rules governing air travel. A finding of mechanical failure would open the way to much larger settlements, as would solid evidence of a bombing--if lawyers can then prove that TWA's security measures were lax. The 225 families that settled with Pan Am over the Lockerbie disaster...
...Like the Retreat from Warsaw...
McDonough adds, "I remember standing on top of the stadium at the end of the game and looking across the parking lot. It was like the retreat from Warsaw, everyone was trudging the snow, people were throwing snowballs...
...chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled to as a former president. But Walesa won't be punching a clock for long. He will take an unpaid leave next week to go an a U.S. lecture tour. "This is such a cabaret," says TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski from Warsaw. "He's just trying to demonstrate that the ruling people haven't yet solved the problem of former presidents and their pensions. He will pretend to work because he wants to attract attention." Kucharski points out that the situation is mostly Walesa's fault. "During his five years in office...