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...cold war adds new pressures. In spite of Gorbachev's insistence that there are no military solutions to East-West relations, his high command still tends to believe it is a zero-sum contest, a question of who prevails over whom. When Moscow loses the West wins, and vice versa. These days the Soviet Union is losing Eastern Europe and digging in hard to keep from losing one of its own republics. The U.S. is not only winning, many senior Soviet commanders feel, but gloating about the Soviet decline. "The American invasion of Panama was a gift for the generals...
Increasingly concerned that events might spin out of control, the Bush Administration stopped soft-pedaling its support for the Lithuanians and made it clear to Gorbachev that military intervention would seriously damage both perestroika and East-West relations. Said Bush: "Any attempt to coerce or intimidate or forcibly intervene against the Lithuanian people is bound to backfire...
...tangled web of the upheaval in the U.S.S.R., East-West relations and Middle Eastern politics, human lives have become a political tool. The world can not sit by silently as the countdown to May 5 continues...
Great issues of statecraft normally require great deliberation. Since the U.S. and the Soviet Union opened talks on controlling the growth of their strategic nuclear arsenals in 1969, only two limited treaties have been signed, the last one in 1979. East-West negotiations on reducing conventional armies in Europe began in Vienna and have yet to reach any agreements. Members of the European Community have been working toward economic integration, scheduled for 1992, since the Treaty of Rome was signed...
...West German officials have presented a strong defense of their motives and tried to put down the fears emanating from East and West. "We are aware of the historical dimension of this process," Genscher said in Ottawa, and that includes "remembering all the suffering inflicted on other nations in the name of Germany. We seek unification in the context of integration in the European Community, East-West partnership for stability, the building of a common European home and the creation of a peaceful order throughout Europe." Genscher joined with Shevardnadze in quoting Thomas Mann: "We seek a European Germany...