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...European process can only succeed if it involves all our European countries, and of course the United States and Canada. But we think we should proceed from the realities existing in the world: the existence of both the European Economic Community and [its East Bloc counterpart] Comecon, of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...Under your leadership Hungary has been more successful economically than most other Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) bloc members. How do you explain this performance...
...managers have broken away from inertia, from old approaches." One such mossback, presumably, was 74-year-old Nikolai Baibakov, who was ousted as the head of Gosplan, the Soviet economic planning committee. He was replaced by Nikolai Talyzin, 56, a former telecommunications engineer who was Moscow's representative to Comecon, the East bloc's common market. Also leaving the top leadership is Nikolai Tikhonov, 80, who retired from the Politburo, having resigned last month from his government job as Premier. In addition, Gorbachev put to rest the gossamer dreams of Nikita Khrushchev, who drafted a long-term economic plan...
...also revived a 1983 proposal to freeze Soviet intermediate-range-missile deployment in Asia if nuclear cuts could be achieved in Europe. The U.S. has previously rejected both proposals. Gorbachev also hinted that he would like to see direct relations, presumably to facilitate commerce, between the European Community and COMECON, the East bloc trading group...
Dressed in a dark tan uniform, Jaruzelski remained cool and confident throughout the nearly three-hour encounter with the press. At times he even displayed a wry sense of humor. President Reagan, the Polish leader said, deserved "a medal of achievement" from COMECON, the Soviet-led trading community, because Reagan's policy of sanctions against Poland had resulted in greater economic cooperation among Moscow's allies. Jaruzelski made it clear that he was not about to bend to pressure from Washington. Said he: "Reckoning that we will pay with concessions for favors is not realistic...