NEWS
November 21, 1990 | MICHAEL PARKS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Leaders of former Communist states of Eastern Europe, further shifting the Continent's balance of power, said Tuesday that they are pressing for the abolition of the Warsaw Pact to complete the dramatic changes that began there a year ago with the wave of anti-Marxist revolutions.
NEWS
June 3, 1990 | ROBERT C. TOTH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
If Germany was the most important topic at the U.S.-Soviet summit, it was also the one that President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev did the least to resolve. And in putting the issue aside, they postponed coming to grips with the sometimes unwelcome implications of their own policies. Bush held to his position, supported by all his NATO allies as well as half the nations of the collapsing Warsaw Pact, that a united Germany should be a full member of NATO.
OPINION
July 25, 1999 | Helga Graham, Helga Graham helped organize the letter protesting NATO enlargement that was sent to Prime Minister Tony Blair
It would be a mistake to forget about the near "high noon" shoot-out, fringed with farce, between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces and Russian troops at Pristina airport and the subsequent military tensions. Relations between Russia and the West have dissipated dangerously since the end of the Cold War. Kosovo is largely symptom, not cause. This matters. A democratic, reasonably cooperative Russia is Europe's single most important security issue.