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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...
...Poland and Hungary, he will also have to advise Yeltsin against behaving too aggressively with his neighbors, especially the former Soviet republics Moscow calls "the near abroad." Russia has intervened militarily in Moldova, Georgia and Tajikistan, and is now shaking a fist at Lithuania. If Clinton is to placate Warsaw and Budapest on NATO membership, Yeltsin will have to offer reassurance to Central Europe by dissociating his government more vigorously from resurgent Russian nationalism...
...lost Russia. Yet it should be obvious that democracy in Russia will be won or lost almost exclusively by the Russians themselves." And if reform fails in Russia, says James Baker, an enlarged NATO would at least "protect democracy" where it is showing signs of taking "firm root -- in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest...
...girding for a more aggressive Russian line in foreign policy. In recent weeks Moscow has toughened its expressions of concern about the shabby treatment of ethnic Russians in former republics. It has also signalled a vague willingness to retaliate if NATO decides to open its membership to the former Warsaw Pact states. That may mean the parliament balking at the provisions of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe and SALT II. U.S. analysts warn that under the new parliament, Russia's arms sales abroad will rise, as will the budgets of the security and military services...
Washington -- The Clinton Administration has persuaded Japan to agree to a dramatic loosening of controls on Supercomputer sales to China and former Warsaw Pact nations. Since 1987, Japan and the U.S. have had a pact to restrict sales of supercomputers because of their value in nuclear-weapons programs. The policy shift could be worth $5 billion to U.S. firms...