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...event of a Russian attack was to hold out just long enough for a camera crew to arrive - and then pray for help from the West. This week in Prague the prayers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will be answered, as all three countries receive formal invitations to join NATO. But given the weakness of the countries' militaries, why is NATO admitting them? And in the absence of any obvious Russian threat, why do the Balts still want to join? Unlike other former Warsaw Pact countries, such as Poland and Hungary, the Balts didn't have national armies during...
Keep the Russians out, the Germans down and the Americans in." During the Cold War, that simple slogan pretty much summed up NATO's purpose as far as Europe was concerned. Those days are long gone. This week the leaders of the 19 North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries gather in Prague to embark on what's meant to be the alliance's most ambitious enlargement yet: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia - all armed with more will than power - are expected to get invitations to join. But with more terrorist attacks and a war against Iraq...
...Before that can be a problem, however, NATO would have to bulk up - and it's not so clear that it is serious about doing so. The question is a familiar one. The centerpiece of the last NATO summit, in Washington in April 1999, was the "defense capabilities initiative," which set out 59 areas - from field hospitals to tankers - where nations should beef up their arsenals. While most goals were achieved, "they picked the low-hanging fruit," admits a NATO official. The crucial big-ticket items remain: protection against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; better equipment for command, control, communication...
...meet the requirements. You don't do what you are supposed to." These tough words - from NATO Secretary-General George Robertson, no less - greeted Hungarian Defense Minister Ferenc Juhász during his second week in the job. On a visit to the alliance's Brussels headquarters fresh from his Hungarian Socialist Party's general election victory last April, Juhász was shocked: "I was expecting more cooperative language. All the other countries were unfriendly. They questioned our seriousness in the fight against terrorism. They questioned our trustworthiness as an ally." What went wrong? When Hungary was admitted...
While a number of sources place Agatha in Cambridge and living on the street at this time, she says in her statement that she is still the president and CEO of Nato Libby & Associates, still based in New York...