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...aftermath of history's first hotline diplomacy, the most significant aspect of the Smalltown Summit was that it happened. The road toward a meaningful East-West dialogue may even have started at Glassboro...
...diplomats had played a key role in a short-lived effort to bring Hanoi and Washington together before and during the 1966 bombing pause, Budapest gave up all efforts to effect a settlement last fall and reportedly ordered Radványi to abandon mediation attempts. Devoutly believing in closer East-West relations, Radványi became increasingly-and, in the end, irrevocably-frustrated by his government's instructions, and opted for American citizenship rather than a Hungarian ambassadorship...
...While we would have to disagree with a number of individual pronouncements in "The Unpleasant Reality," your article on East Germany [April 7], we do applaud the initiative shown by TIME in exploring this neglected topic. We agree wholeheartedly with the "Letter from the Publisher" when it says that East Germany "is in many ways a crucial area in a new Europe of growing East-West contacts" and that "less is known about it" than about "any other of Eastern Europe's Communist countries...
...Communist hopes was the synod's participation in the election of a new council chairman, Germany's top Protestant post. The man chosen-Bavaria's Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger, 58-was in fact formally proposed by the Fiirstenwalde session. Regarded as a moderate on the question of East-West relations, Dietzfelbinger was chosen over the pre-synod favorite, Hannover's Bishop Hanns Lilje, who is more closely identified with Germany's political controversies. Dietzfelbinger succeeds Bishop Kurt Scharf of Berlin-Brandenburg, who hopes to return to East Berlin, from which he was expelled...
...resultant economic dialogue has lured some 500 Western firms to invest over $800 million in Eastern Europe, and every year the tide of Western tourists increases. West Germany's new Christian Democrat-Socialist coalition regime has made limited new East-West moves possible. While there is not yet any end in sight for Germany's geographical division, most East European governments have dropped the stultifying position that nothing can be discussed unless West Germany acknowledges East Germany as a sovereign state. This year Rumania defied the Kremlin to recognize West Germany-and both Hungary and Czechoslovakia want...