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...opening of the preparatory meetings, which are expected to last until February or March, could hardly have occurred at a more appropriate moment in East-West relations. The surprisingly strong electoral victory of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, architect of East-West détente, cleared the way for the signing and ratification of a treaty establishing normal relations between East and West Germany (see following story). In Geneva the second phase of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks got under way last week, with the U.S. and Soviet Union working toward a permanent and sweeping agreement to limit strategic nuclear...
...Talbott: "In the aftermath of the security conference, we will have to take extra steps to prevent ideological diversion. It will be a great menace to us, and we must counteract it vigorously and vigilantly." In East Germany, even as the government was negotiating the inter-German treaty with Bonn last month, its police were installing deadly new electronic devices along the East-West barrier that would fire automatically at would-be escapees...
...uneasiness about the country's future. It is doubtful that the Russians would unilaterally pull out their troops, no matter how compliant the Czechoslovaks appear. Paradoxically, Czechoslovakia's main hope of getting out from under Soviet occupation may lie in the possibility of some broad East-West agreement to legitimize Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. Some officials in Prague have expressed hope that the 33-nation European Security Conference, scheduled for early 1973, might ultimately result in reductions of both Soviet and NATO forces in Europe, including the withdrawal of Russian troops. But that day is a long...
...others. But there are smaller, independent toilers in Eastern vineyards who so far have remained relatively obscure. Sometimes acting as middlemen for big deals, sometimes hunting up products and processes to sell on their own, these new Marco Polos have perhaps done more to expand the frontiers of East-West trade than the emissaries of giant corporations. Familiar with the workings of Sojuzchimexport, Stankoimport, and other mystifyingly complicated Soviet state enterprises, they have been putting together some of the most imaginative deals since William Henry Seward made Alaska a Russian export. Among them...
...something of a switcheroo." Though the Soviets want to sell in the West in order to acquire currency, they are reluctant to part with some of their more advanced technology. The secret of doing business with the Russians, says Hilderley, "is to be very patient with them." Certainly, in East-West trade, patience can pay well...