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...lucrative deal was among hundreds struck in the past few years in a booming sector of East-West trade: the hawking of East European talent to the West for cash or merchandise. Polish soccer goalies, Czechoslovak hockey forwards and East German handball coaches are only part of the business. Such athletes have been joined by thousands of other performers, ranging from the likes of renowned Czechoslovak Soprano Gabriela Benachkova, a diva at the prestigious Milan and Vienna opera houses, to Hungarian gypsy bands, Polish striptease artists, Bulgarian pop singers and Rumanian high-wire circus acts. Although the East bloc governments...
...summit Gorbachev may announce withdrawal of some of the 115,000 Soviet troops now in the country. In general, says a Western envoy in Moscow, "if you look back over Gorbachev's first couple of years in office, you see a pattern of peeling away the irritants in East-West relations. It would be surprising if he did not make an effort to keep up the momentum in Washington...
...momentous changes? In their first two encounters, Reagan found Gorbachev's eyes questioning but not hostile, his remarks at times sharp but not irrational. In his new book, Perestroika, Gorbachev comes out as a Reagan booster. The Reykjavik summit "marked a turning point in world history," writes Gorbachev. "This ((East-West)) dialogue has now broken free of the confusion of technicalities, of data comparisons and political arithmetic." That is right down Reagan's uncluttered alley...
Ishioka's East-West ambivalence is palpable. Although she decamped to work in New York City in 1980 (and "did nothing," she says), Ishioka returned to Tokyo after two years; then her interest shifted to U.S. and European projects. There was the Mishima movie and a Miles Davis album cover, and now she is at work on sets for M. Butterfly, a Broadway play, and for a Philip Glass opera to be produced in New York. "In the '80s," she says, "I would like to cause a commotion outside Japan...
...major beneficiaries of the improving East-West climate are ordinary Germans, who are increasingly able to travel, trade and exchange cultural assets across their border. Honecker may have spoken for both leaders a few years ago when, at a meeting with West German parliamentarians, he plaintively asked, "Must we do everything through our big brothers?" As Honecker revisits his homeland next week, many Germans will be hoping that the answer is no, not everything...