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Retired after 31 years as chief of intelligence. A clever innovator, he knows where the bodies are buried and the moles are burrowed. Last spring, while promoting his book Troika, a story of East-West relations, he expressed admiration for Gorbachev...
Europe's new assertiveness poses a special challenge for Washington, which has long been accustomed to treating Western Europe as a junior partner, particularly when it comes to managing the global economy and East-West security. At last May's NATO summit meeting, President Bush asserted traditional U.S. leadership with his proposals for an accelerated timetable of reductions in conventional arms. But he was forced to bow to West German demands that the alliance postpone a decision on deploying a new U.S. tactical missile to modernize NATO's nuclear arsenal...
Baker and Cheney have had their disagreements. They differed over how many troops the U.S. should withdraw from Europe as part of an East-West conventional-arms agreement. Baker wanted larger cuts than Cheney felt were prudent. But they have preserved what Baker calls "civility and discipline" between themselves and their staffs. "That's what the President wants," says Cheney...
...Gorbachev responds wisely and generously to the nationalistic stirrings in the Baltics, he will win on two fronts: the cause of perestroika throughout the Soviet Union will be advanced, and one more irritant in East-West relations will disappear. Living next door to good neighbors is always better in the long run than sharing a home with unhappy relatives...
George Bush returned from his first presidential trip to Eastern Europe last week eager to bring a little glasnost of his own to East-West relations. In that spirit, the Commerce Department announced a decision that cleared the way for the sale of a broad range of desktop computers to the Soviet Union and its allies. Under the plan, such companies as IBM and Apple Computer will be able to export machines ten times as powerful as older units that may now be shipped without special approval. But the sale of top-of-the-line models, notably the Macintosh...