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...buffer between East and West. Britain would join with Canada and the U.S. in an allied but separate political coalition. Eastern European states would be wooed into the neutral continental center, so the tripolar division would stabilize the international system and serve as a buffer in any East-West confrontation...
Michael Mandelbaum, director of the Project on East-West Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations, was a member of the delegation that visited Moscow. He is also coauthor, with TIME's Strobe Talbott, of the new book Reagan and Gorbachev. Mandelbaum wrote this report on the trip for TIME...
...collapse of the refuseniks program was a "major disappointment," Donahue said later. Still, he was predictably enthusiastic about his venture into East-West relations. "Most of us agreed, throughout the week, that we get far too little information about them and they get far too little information about us," he said. "If we can sell them Pepsi, we certainly ought to be able to talk to them." The Soviets seem to agree: they are planning to air the Donahue programs on Soviet television soon...
Skating on the international circuit has even created possibilities for a little East-West diplomacy. When Wylie competed in another world competition in Canada, he had a chance to skate against some of the top Russian and East German figure skaters. "We sat down once, and had a couple [of shots] after a competition," he says, "but [the Russian skaters] just didn't stop with one or two. They just kept going. It was amazing...
Bonn spokesmen said no money had changed hands in the deal. But they hinted that proposed East-West German agreements on environmental and scientific cooperation, which East Berlin seeks, would now be looked upon favorably...