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President Clinton is writing letters to Boris Yeltsin, trying to convince him that NATO's expansion to the east will not threaten a "cold peace...
...obvious concern that keeps the alliance together is the fear that the bear isn't dead; he's just hibernating. While Yeltsin was one of the architects of the Soviet Union's demise, the member nations aren't willing to gamble on his continued goodwill...
...Yeltsin's war to crush secessionists in Chechnya hasn't eased western minds. And should Yeltsin fall, the potential of Russian nationalists--whether former communists or protofascists--to rise to power on Russia's economic woes remains a real danger...
...Yeltsin is understandably concerned. While Clinton should make every effort to convince Yeltsin of the U.S.'s good faith, that doesn't change the fact that expansion potentially threatens Russian security, and it will indubitably lessen their influence in the region in the future...
...want to be in a country where the onlyalternatives to Yeltsin are the fascists and thecommunists," he said to a suddenly applaudingcrowd. "Yeltsin's era is finished...