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...Reagan was clearly delighted last week by the prospect of a deal. In a speech in Los Angeles, the President welcomed the Bonn proposal. "We can wrap up an agreement on intermediate-range nuclear missiles promptly," he said. "We ask ourselves, Are we entering a truly new phase in East-West relations? Is far-reaching, enduring change in the postwar standoff now possible? Surely, these are our hopes...
After attacking Reagan's speech for dumping a "heavy cold downpour" on East-West relations, Soviet Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov praised the softened U.S. stance on inspections. "Taking into account that the U.S. has changed its position on verification," Gerasimov said, "we think that all these problems can be solved by our diplomats in Geneva." He also acknowledged that "the situation has changed for the better after this statement by Chancellor Kohl...
...mile border bristling with armed patrols and barbed wire, the two states have settled into a wary but increasingly pragmatic relationship, held together by more than 70 bilateral agreements governing everything from postal communications to electricity sharing. "German-German relations used to be much worse than East-West relations in general," says Wolfgang Berner, deputy director of Cologne's Federal Institute for East European and International Studies. "This has changed." While no small part of that change is due to West German bridge building, Honecker has in recent years also grown more flexible...
Former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was part of a 1980 international commission that endorsed mutual security as the guiding force in East-West relations. After visiting Moscow in February, he came away feeling that the Soviets had in fact adopted this approach. "The Soviets have made a major change in both rhetoric and doctrine under Gorbachev by adopting mutual security," he says. "It runs counter to Leninist doctrine, which was that one had to achieve superiority and threaten others in order to be safe...
These include his "East-West ideas," specifically the notion that the free-for-all liberation of modern democracies produces pain equally as noble and significant as that brought about by repressions in the Soviet bloc: "The sufferings of freedom also had to be considered. Otherwise we would be conceding a higher standard to totalitarianism, saying that only oppression could keep us honest." And Uncle Benn, a "sex-abused man," is not the only victim of contemporary life that Kenneth has in mind. "All this may appear to be about me," he disclaims at one point about his narrative, but much...