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Last September the White House announced that the Soviet Union was building a base to service missile-carrying submarines at the south Cuban port of Cienfuegos. The news set off shock waves of fear that an East-West confrontation comparable to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis was imminent. But then the Soviets removed their submarine tender from Cienfuegos, and the moment of alarm seemed to pass...
Plainly, the road toward East-West detente is not exactly a high-speed expressway. It is vulnerable, moreover, to the sort of old-fashioned petty nationalism that is still able to poison relations between states. Last week, after a needless spasm of local hatreds had spoiled the atmosphere, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito canceled what would have been his first official visit to Rome. The flare-up involved Trieste, the Adriatic port city that has been disputed territory for many years and that nearly became a casus belli between East and West after World...
...writes International Lawyer Samuel Pisar in the introduction to the French version of his new book, Commerce and Coexistence. The book, which has also appeared in West Germany and the U.S., is a comprehensive if sometimes overly optimistic guide to the promises of East-West trade. Its publication could hardly have been better timed. The Soviet Union is in the midst of a shopping spree that may be unparalleled in history...
...East-West trade last year accounted for only 3.9% of the world's $273 billion flow of goods. Slight as it seems, the figure is extremely important politically. While the leaders of the Communist countries would certainly resist any attempt by the tender sword to slice into their control at home, they are nonetheless prepared to make diplomatic gestures in order to enhance trading opportunities with the West. The Soviet willingness to reach an accommodation regarding West Berlin (see THE WORLD) and the cordial treatment accorded France's President Georges Pompidou on his recent visit to Moscow reflected...
...American Lag. There is a feast ahead in East-West trade, says Pisar, and he has written his book for those who want to partake of it. A Pole by birth, a survivor of Auschwitz, and a U.S. citizen by a special act of Congress, Pisar was a staff member of the Senate Foreign Trade Committee and later worked for the Kennedy Administration's trade task force. He wrote the proposals on East-West trade that became part of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act. Today, at 41, he is a Paris-based attorney whose clients include Borg Warner...