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...NATO has always been and will remain a mutual defense pact, but it has also always been much more than that. During the cold war, even while attending to its principal job of deterring the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO helped to consolidate civilian-led democracy in Spain and to keep the peace between Greece and Turkey. As NATO adapts its mission and expands its membership to meet new challenges and opportunities, it will be a positive factor in the promotion of democracy and regional peace. The prospect of NATO admission has already induced several central European states...
...When rebel looters in Goma recently entered the President's local villa--a mansion Mobutu visited just once, but kept ready for his imminent return--they found a house full of plastic "marble" and fake antiques. Other expressions of his grandeur are not so hollow: he owns chateaus in Spain and Belgium, a town house in Paris and a horse ranch in Portugal. Such abuse of his country's strained wealth eventually turned him into an international pariah...
Mederos stepped in and traced the book from the book dealer in Spain to and antiques dealer. The antiques dealer said he bought the book from a Cambridge resident, Mederos says...
After the Grenada police received the shipment, Mederos travelled to Spain to inventory and retrieve the stolen items...
Mederos says he retrieved $250,000 worth of books and prints in Spain late this summer...