MOSCOW
The most contentious issue of this week's summit may also be the most important foreign policy challenge facing the U.S. in the '90s: how to keep the peace in Europe now that the cold war is over. George Bush not only wants to preserve NATO, with a united Germany as a full member and U.S. troops on its soil; he also wants the Soviet Union to like the idea. In his TIME interview, Mikhail Gorbachev dismissed as "not serious" (a scathing put-down in the lexicon of Soviet diplomacy) the notion that a strengthened NATO will replace a disintegrating Warsaw Pact...
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