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...smugness of Czechoslovaks may stem from the fact that, along with Hungarians, they are relatively free to travel. Not so for others: although the Iron Curtain has crumbled along the entire length of the old East-West divide, many East Europeans find their freedom of movement as curtailed as ever. It is no longer a question of obtaining a passport and an exit permit from a suspicious communist regime. Now the problem for Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians is to obtain visas to the West or even permits to visit one of the other countries in Eastern Europe. Says Andrzej Misiok...
...Bush the multilateralist. He seemed to realize that he has earned such widespread praise, both at home and abroad, precisely because he has resisted a very American temptation: instead of coming on like gangbusters, he has shown the restraint necessary to lead an international effort that cuts across both East-West and North-South divides. If sustained, his accomplishment may establish a precedent for collective-security arrangements more enduring than the consequences of Saddam's villainy...
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait could also have a welcome effect on American policy, shaking the U.S. once and for all out of its obsession with East-West conflict. In 1955 John Foster Dulles helped create the Baghdad Pact, with headquarters in Iraq. Its mission was to keep the Soviets out of the Middle East. Yet trouble came from within the region and even within the alliance. In 1956 Britain, a member of the pact, joined France and Israel in attacking Egypt. In 1958 a nationalist revolution overthrew the pro-Western monarchy of Iraq. The new regime immediately pulled...
After Budapest, Ash's accounts get even better. In describing the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, he avoids the melodrama that has plagued so many other accounts. He tells of one German man who crossed the East-West border several times, just for the hell of it. And he tells of thousands of East Berliners, picking up their 100 Deutschmarks "greeting money" and going shopping for the first time...
...maintain his power against the critics who were blistering him at a Soviet Communist Party Congress. Thus the invitation to address a future NATO meeting specifically named Gorbachev and could not be used by any successor. Explained British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "Without President Gorbachev, all this ((improvement in East-West relations)) would not have happened." In Moscow, Gorbachev asserted, "I am always ready...