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Gorbachev and Shevardnadze said once again last week that NATO and the Warsaw Pact should eventually be dismantled. NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner dismissed the suggestion as "a long-standing aim" of Soviet policy. Still, if there is no cold war to fight, it will be impossible at some point to avoid reconsidering the roles of the two military alliances. One of Worner's predecessors, Britain's Lord Ismay, said the goal of NATO was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down." As the Soviet threat recedes, NATO could serve to keep the West Germans...
...among the most consequential in NATO's 40-year history." As NATO's foreign ministers convened in Brussels, the Secretary-General of the West's 16-nation military pact was far more subdued but still upbeat. "It's an encouraging development which we welcome," said West Germany's Manfred Worner...
...Brussels, spokesmen for the Administration and the alliance downplayed the significance of Nunn's pressure. Said West German Defense Minister Manfred Worner: "We don't need any American Senator to tell us where deficiencies in our conventional forces may be." But the deficiencies seem to have been recognized...
Called before the Bundestag's Defense Committee to explain, Worner admitted his decision to retire Kiessling had been influenced by a second factor: concern over "personal differences" between the German general and NATO'S supreme commander, U.S. General Bernard Rogers. Angered, Bonn's legislators launched an extensive nonpartisan investigation...
...comes at an awkward moment. In December, Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff was charged with engineering a huge tax break for the Flick industrial conglomer ate in return for contributions to his Free Democrat Party. Kohl promised that Lambsdorff would resign if the case goes to trial. Even if Worner can prove his allegations, he too faces mounting pressure to resign. The loss of either minister would bring a shake-up in Kohl's moderate-right coalition government...