Johnson's Russia List 15 May 1997 djohnson@cdi.org [Note from David Johnson: 1. Reuters/Interfax: Yeltsin Faces Tough Task Selling NATO Deal at Home. 2. RIA Novosti: VLADIMIR LUKIN SPOKE WELL ABOUT RESULTS OF RUSSIA-NATO TALKS. 3. RIA Novosti: ALEXANDR SHOKHIN DOES NOT RULE OUT THAT RUSSIA MIGHT BECOME A MEMBER OF NATO BEFORE THE YEAR 2000. 4. Laura Belin (RFE/RL): Federation Council vote. 5. New April Theses of Russian leftists. (From Renfrey Clarke in Moscow). 6. Obshchaya Gazeta: Igor Kazakov, "Someone Is Confusing the Nuclear Issue. Domestic Missile Men Assure that Their Arsenals Are Under Lock and Key, and the Lock Is in Perfect Condition." 7. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Yulia Kalinina, "Russians, Here Is a List of What You Should Be Afraid of. It Includes All but a Large-Scale War." 8. Paul Goble (RFE/RL): 'A Big Victory For Reason.' 9. Washington Post editorial: A NATO-Russia Agreement. 10. New York Times editorial: NATO Expansion, Ready or Not. 11. RIA Novosti: Valentin Kunin, RUSSIA WILL NEVER BE FIRST TO USE NUKES--UNLESS IT HAS TO. [846 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=2671972&hilit=CIA> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&2699790 Score: 82 Subject: Re: NEWSGROUP: misc.activism.progressive (version 2,Monthly auto-post)