The Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invades the country to end the liberalization.

After the invasion to Czechoslovakia by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact in August 1968 he emigrated again, this time to Austria, where he lived for the next 21 years.

But as for a 1990 party platform that calls for the dissolution of NATO, to follow that of the former Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, Mr. Gysi is uneasy with that position today.

It was one of the founding members of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact and Comecon, and it was the first central European country to withdraw from those organizations, now defunct.

Mr. Dubcek knows something about invasions; he was head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party in August 1968, when Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces invaded to put an end to his policies of rapid political change.

Democracy advocates and dissidents from 17 countries had gathered in Czernin Palace, in the very room where the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact was dissolved, to hear Mr. Bush speak.

The Cold War started after the formation of the American-led NATO and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.

The later version of the planning document, like its predecessor, calls on the four military services to be prepared to fight two major regional wars simultaneously while maintaining sizable military presence in Europe, where the old Soviet-led Warsaw Pact threat has disappeared.

One day the United States intervenes in Panama and the next day it virtually invites the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact to invade Rumania to support the democracy movement there.

He agreed for the first time that West German troops could remain in NATO without a corresponding role for the East Germans in the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.