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...Coexistence. The Prague trials are part of an overall pattern of political crackdown throughout the Soviet bloc (TIME, July 10). Many Western statesmen have hoped that East-West détente would lead to political relaxation in the Communist countries. The effect so far has been the opposite. Communist leaders throughout the bloc are seeking to immunize their people from the possibly liberalizing contamination that could result from closer economic and cultural contact with the West. Soviet Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov has warned that détente will actually mean a sharpening of the political tensions between the Communist...
...trade with the Communist world last year totaled $612 million, less than the nation's commerce with Colombia. If the events of last week are any indication, however, a new era has begun for East-West trade. The Commerce Department, urged on by President Nixon, granted the Boeing Co. a license to export $150 million worth of jet equipment to China. Representatives of dozens of U.S. firms returned from a high-level meeting in Warsaw aimed at substantially increasing U.S. trade with Eastern Europe. Then, at week's end the White House announced a blockbuster: the Soviet Union...
...momentum later this month, when he is scheduled to visit Moscow to discuss other trade matters. He will likely find the Soviets expecting the U.S. to offer bigger concessions next time, but at least one specific new step is anticipated during his visit: agreement on a joint East-West Trade Commission whose job would be to increase U.S.-Soviet trade...
...Communist leaders of Eastern Europe, the conciliatory Ostpolitik of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is laden with peril as well as promise. Brandt's offer of closer ties promises to bring Eastern European nations considerable economic benefits. But conciliation withBonn has already robbed the Communist regimes of the propaganda argument among their own people: that only Communism and Soviet power offer protectionfrom "revenge-seeking" West Germans. Relaxation of East-West tensions might also expose Eastern Europeans to Western influences that could make them far more dissatisfied with their own rigid social and political order and more eager for Western...
...particular, many of architect Sert's aesthetic features have been scrapped due to funding cutbacks and inflation. The 420-foot arcade running east-west through the center of the building was going to be decorated with art works. The terraces of the office wing were supposed to have been adorned with plants, "sort of like hanging gardens," Sert says. Sert had also hoped to have an outdoor amphitheatre on the roof of the semi-circular lecture hall section. The building's two courtyards were going to be sculpture gardens. "Unfortunately, the parts of the building that were supposed...