President Clinton said today he wants to expand NATO by 1999, admitting former Soviet bloc states. NPR'S Mara Liasson reports Mr. Clinton told a Detroit campaign audience today that the U-S should prepare to think of its former enemies as allies, and to defend them if necessary. Republican challenger Bob Dole told supporters in Frankenmuth, Michigan, today that the president has been dragging his feet on admitting new NATO members. Dole says the alliance could welcome Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic by 1998, a year earlier than the Clinton proposal.
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