some Europeans-and, as al-ways, splitting the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Europe 1992 gives Gorbachev the opportunity to do both.
Already, Hungary and Poland have sought stronger ties to the EEC. Assuming a continuation of today's era of good feel- ins "a request for membership an East European country, made in the name of peace and reconciliation. ..would be difficult to reject." That would short-cir- cuit European political union and make impossible the EEC's current...