31.   In a historic move to expand the Western military alliance closer to Russia, NATO agreed Tuesday to ask three former Soviet bloc nations to join its circle.

32.   In his view, moving the Western alliance eastward is just a U.S.-led plot to isolate Russia in case it turns undemocratic again.

33.   In fact, the plan served as the economic and political foundation for the Western alliance that waged the Cold War.

34.   In July Clinton travels to Madrid to attend a historic NATO summit scheduled to invite east European countries to join the western alliance.

35.   In the end, Russians backed the Western alliance in the war.

36.   It can well ask whether two smaller states would play the distinctive role in global affairs, and in the western alliance, that a united Canada has.

37.   It has not abandoned the idea of diluting the Western alliance.

38.   It is not the wish to prevent humiliation of the Western alliance.

39.   It seems clear that Berlin will try to reach out to Moscow as far as is possible without causing any rupture in the Western alliance.

40.   It menaces belief in the Western alliance.