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...since Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian Freedom Fighters' revolt in 1956 has the U.S. had an ambassador in Budapest. But for several months the U.S. has been negotiating toward more extensive diplomatic relations with Hungary. Similar conferences for friendlier relations-both political and economic -with Rumania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia are being considered too. The U.S. State Department notes that much of the incentive has come from the satellites themselves; they have displayed an increasing interest in trading with the U.S., and even now 40% of all satellite trade is with countries in the West...
...treaty signing, oth er nations are only too eager to join hands and sign, too. Ironically, they are all non-nuclear powers, and except for a handful, they will never have a nucle ar capability. At week's end the following had agreed to sign: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, East Germany, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Li beria, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Soma lia, the U.A.R. and Uruguay. In addition, about 50 countries have shown an official "interest" in signing, and presumably will do so soon...
This Year at Marienbad. The satellites also gain hard money through a remittance system by which a Westerner can send cash or scarce medicines to his aged grandmother in Bulgaria or buy up to 20 acres of land for his family in Poland. All of them collect hard money in the West for parcels that are delivered in the East. Poland is the leader in this mail-order trade, which is supported mostly by the 6,000,000 Polish-descended Americans and has the double purpose of sucking in hard money and keeping down local pressure for consumer goods...
Since 1961, moneymaking tourism from the West has increased 40% in Bulgaria, more than 200% in Hungary. With capitalistic resourcefulness, the Communists heavily advertise their attractions in the West. Hungary bought the motels of the 1958 Brussels world's fair and set them down in four tourist towns along Lake Balaton. Bulgaria has built 78 new seaside hotels in the past decade and Rumania about 50. Most of the new Black Sea resorts smack more of Miami than of Moscow, and often practice segregation-Westerners only. While Western tourists (mostly European) at first ventured East out of curiosity, they...
...about the only country in eastern Europe free from dictatorship," then posed a question that self-advertised idealists have yet to answer: When was the last time they demonstrated in behalf of the political prisoners of Lithuania or Estonia or Latvia or Poland or Hungary or Rumania or Bulgaria or East Germany or Czechoslovakia...