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...original treaty. Western negotiators are opposed to changes. "CFE is a good agreement," says a senior British diplomat. "The Russian generals never liked it, and now they feel in a stronger position to press Yeltsin to dilute it." Nevertheless, some Western leaders are hinting at a compromise. Manfred Worner, NATO's Secretary-General, agrees that the treaty must not be changed. But, he adds cryptically, it can be "reinterpreted...
...countries probably will have to get used to life in the gray zone for the foreseeable future. Even Worner, an advocate of expansion, concedes that progress will be slow. He now speaks only of a "concrete perspective for bringing new Central European democracies into NATO." In a Washington speech last week, he cautioned that it "will be a lengthy road and we need to act gradually, carefully and flexibly." In the same speech Worner made a curious comparison between NATO and the Roman Empire, each providing "guarantees of security for its member countries." True, perhaps, but the problem with...
...President of the Soviet Union addressing a NATO meeting as guest of honor? Until quite recently, the idea would have seemed as preposterous as stickup artist Willie Sutton delivering the keynote speech to the American Bankers Association. But NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner will in fact fly to Moscow this weekend to give Mikhail Gorbachev a personal briefing on the results of last week's Western alliance summit in London. With him Worner will carry the diplomatic equivalent of an engraved invitation for Gorbachev to attend and speak at a future meeting of the NATO Council in Brussels, perhaps about...
...West. They fear that this will lead to a precipitous and unwarranted U.S. withdrawal from Europe, whose defense accounts for about 24% of the annual $286 billion Pentagon budget. "What we consider to be the immediate threat from the Warsaw Pact has receded," says NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner. "We have to base our security preparations not on the intentions of the other side but on the potential...
Nevertheless, many of Worner's West German compatriots and politicians are stepping up protests against the 250,000-strong uniformed U.S. presence in a country about the size of Oregon with the population density of Connecticut. "We're holding something like 1,100 exercises a year, and these people simply won't put up with it anymore," says a civilian adviser to the U.S. Army command. "I can't say that I blame them. If we had a military presence like this in New Jersey, we wouldn't stand for it either...