CFE: Off the endangered list?

The Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was initially designed to reduce the dangers of large-scale conventional warfare in Central Europe between the Soviet-bloc states and NATO. Nearly three years after its signing, and in radically changed political circumstances, the CFE Treaty - amazingly - seems on track as it approaches its first major milestone. By November 16, 1993, all 30 countries now party to the agreement - the 16 NATO states, the countries of the erstwhile Eastern bloc, and the eight states that comprise the western portion of the former Soviet Union - must have completed at least 25 percent of the weapons cuts the treaty requires.