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...Communist spy, who doubtless regards the East-West detente as a conspiracy, has yet to come in from the cold war. Judging from two espionage cases in Washington that were disclosed last week by the FBI, the Red system is equally reluctant to adjust its wage-price guidelines to capitalist living costs. For two years of alleged secret-swiping in the Pentagon, a retired Army colonel got just $5,500 from the Soviets - and may face the death penalty. For nearly four years of risky spy projects, a State Department employee (and FBI informant) was paid a mere...
Climate of Détente. Yet the climax of De Gaulle's grand tour proved an anticlimax for those who had anticipated-or feared-immediate and concrete results in the realm of East-West relations. Back in Moscow, De Gaulle met again with Brezhnev and Kosygin to prepare a 2,000-word "declaration of intent." Both sides held firm to their positions on German reunification, De Gaulle refusing to agree to East German recognition and the Russians remaining rigid in their support of the European status quo. Both sides concurred in their earlier demands...
...weeks, East Germany's Communists have been quibbling over details of the much-discussed speakers' exchange to debate East-West problems with the West German Social Democrats. Last week the Reds stopped quibbling and called the whole thing...
Faced with such impossible demands, the Social Democrats' Willy Brandt could only abandon the whole project and denounce Norden's performance as "a total relapse into the positions of the cold war." Brandt was still determined to pursue open East-West discussion on questions of reunification. In fact, his Social Democrats were already toying with a compromise scheme to replace the speakers' exchange: revival of an old idea to invite East German politicians to speak in a televised panel discussion on West German...
...described that meeting as "the major event of our time." To a U.S. deeply preoccupied with a seemingly shattered Europe, that statement two decades ago appeared vastly exaggerated. Today few would question it. The problems, needs and challenges of Asia weigh ever more heavily on the Western mind. The East-West encounter will undoubtedly dominate the rest of the 20th century...