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==1996==

==1996==

*'''October.''' During the last weeks of [[President Bill Clinton]]’s re-election campaign when he said he would welcome [[Poland]],[[Hungary]] and the [[Czech Republic]] into NATO — the earlier promise to Moscow notwithstanding. Former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock, who took part in both the Bush-Gorbachev early-December 1989 summit in Malta and the Baker-Gorbachev discussions in early February 1990, has said, “The language used was absolute, including no ‘taking advantage’ by the U.S. … I don’t see how anybody could view the subsequent expansion of NATO as anything but ‘taking advantage,’ particularly since, by then, Russia was hardly a credible threat.” (From 16 members in 1990, NATO has grown to 29 member states — the additional 13 all lie east of [[Germany]].)

*'''October.''' During the last weeks of [[President Bill Clinton]]’s re-election campaign when he said he would welcome [[Poland]],[[Hungary]] and the [[Czech Republic]] into NATO — the earlier promise to Moscow notwithstanding. Former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR [[Jack Matlock]], who took part in both the Bush-Gorbachev early-December 1989 summit in Malta and the Baker-Gorbachev discussions in early February 1990, has said, “The language used was absolute, including no ‘taking advantage’ by the U.S. … I don’t see how anybody could view the subsequent expansion of NATO as anything but ‘taking advantage,’ particularly since, by then, Russia was hardly a credible threat.” (From 16 members in 1990, NATO has grown to 29 member states — the additional 13 all lie east of [[Germany]].)

==1999==

==1999==