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When the council finally approved the resolution after 14 hours of debate, NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner, who left a sickbed against his doctors' orders to preside, enthused that its vote marked "a decisive moment in the history of our alliance." So it was, though a somewhat ironic one. NATO was formed 45 years ago to resist any Soviet Bloc invasion of Western Europe, but its first shots fired in anger, if any are, will be a pre-emptive, not a defensive, act against antagonists having nothing to do with a Soviet empire that no longer exists. A NATO diplomat...
...after the notable and -- as Manfred Worner said on Wednesday evening -- "historical" decision made by NATO in Brussels, I bumped into a good friend on the street. He greeted me with a hearty, "Hello, happy fellow," quite unusual given the conditions in Sarajevo these days. It wasn't easy for him to hide the devilish cynicism in this greeting, nor could we keep from breaking up completely...
Later on, Mr. Worner seemed quite serious and extremely angry at his press conference in Brussels. We found it very moving when a journalist advised him to be extra careful, since Mr. Worner, believe it or not, had come to the "historic" meeting against doctor's orders. And we were even more moved when he answered that same journalist's question about the fate of Karadzic's weapons in the so-called Serb capital of Pale -- weapons that would not come under the control of the U.N. Not even the journalist understood the answer, nor did we happy campers...
...first time is whether to expand eastward to embrace those former Soviet satellites finally in a position to join the free world's premier defense alliance. "It would be a historic sin to miss this opportunity to bind in the East Europeans," says NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner. But the West, led by the U.S., is about to commit that very sin. The 16 nations that already enjoy NATO's protection are on the verge of effectively denying it to others...
Fears of a new Iron Curtain coming down between Russia and Eastern Europe are widespread in Moscow, but NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner insists they are misplaced. "Nothing this alliance will do will be against Russia," he insists. East European leaders say much the same thing and suggest that a solid phalanx of new NATO states in the region would be a force for stability...