[spectre] Balkan Power Cuts- - to put records straight

[Joasia]

as a matter of fact Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary were already full
members of NATO at the time of Igor Mekina's writing....

from Nato page:
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Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
Welcomes the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland Into the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization

Released by the Bureau of Public Affairs, March 12, 1999
Department of State, Washington, D.C.

Today Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will receive instruments of
accession to the North Atlantic Treaty for the Czech Republic, Hungary, and
Poland. (...) 
Deposit of the instruments of accession marks the final step in a complex
process that formally began with the invitation issued by NATO leaders at
the 1997 Madrid NATO Summit to these three countries to join the Alliance.
Formal enlargement protocols were signed by the Allies and the three
invitees in Brussels in December 1997.
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on 04/06/02 6:12 AM, geert lovink at geert@desk.nl wrote:

> From: "Kevin Magee" <hypobololemaioi@multiverse.com>
> To: <generation_online@coyote.kein.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 11:24 AM
> Subject: [Generation_online] Balkan Power Cuts
> 
> from Igor Mekina's
> "Slovenia and Its Army: Expansion as Business"
> AIM Ljubljana, August 3, 2001
> 
> "Central and Eastern European countries such as Poland, Hungary, the Czech
> Republic, Romania and Slovenia, in preparing for NATO's expansion, are
> purchasing offensive arms, such as F-16 and F-18 aircraft and military
> helicopters in order to better their chances for admittance in NATO."
> > 
> "Despite official claims by NATO that weapons purchases will not secure
> membership in this exclusive club, the aforementioned countries are under
> pressure to buy these weapons in hopes of thus improving their chances.