91. The problems of Central and East Europe require political integration and economic prosperity, not the extension of military alliances. 92. The Senate overwhelmingly rejected a measure to limit the cost to American taxpayers of weapons to the three Eastern European countries nominated to join the NATO military alliance. 93. The question is how to remake a purely military alliance into an effective military and political security organization. 94. The western military alliance pressed ahead with the air campaign against Yugoslav forces Wednesday. 95. Their people dreamed of a day when they would be free and could take their place in a Europe no longer defined by ideological warfare and military alliances. 96. This is not a picture that cries out for enlarging a military alliance whose core purpose, defense against the Soviet bloc, is obsolete. 97. This squeezes Bosnia, and threatens the Bosnian-Croat military alliance that can keep the Bosnian Serbs in check. 98. To the minority of NATO detractors, the Yugoslav war and the Russian dispute are just two examples of why Hungary should have stayed out of the military alliance. 99. U.S. officials were also encouraged when President Clinton and Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto met in Tokyo last April and promised to broaden their military alliance. 100. Under the old treaty, members of military alliances had to coordinate their military deployments with their allies. |