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...city." The Soviets asked the joggers to confine their activity to parks and to official sporting facilities. Clint Halloran, 43, a trim Australian attaché who serves as Hash Master, the elected head of the in formal club, chose not to regard the Soviet demand as a worsening of East-West relations. In compliance with the Soviets' request, the runs have been rescheduled for nonrush hours and moved to various parks and suburbs, like the area around the U.S. embassy dacha, ten miles from the Kremlin. "There was a real danger of someone being knocked down and injured," said...
Mondale also intended to ask the Soviet Foreign Minister for his views on major issues, and perhaps to respond to them as a private citizen. But primarily he was determined to use the meeting as a reminder of his experience in East-West affairs, pointing out that as Senator and Vice President he had three discussions with Gromyko. The Soviet Foreign Minister, who in all probability viewed his meeting with Mondale mainly as a courtesy gesture, was unlikely to offer anything not already passed on to Shultz. By mutual consent, no communiqué describing either the tone or the content...
Part of the dead weight on the Politburo is the remorselessly accumulating array of Soviet internal problems, ranging from agricultural failure to shrinking productivity to endemic corruption. Recent experience has been that East-West tensions fester when the Soviet leadership withdraws into a shell. The sight of Andrei Gromyko's familiar face in the U.S. may be a signal that the Kremlin is aware of the need for a new and healthier equilibrium...
There is some anxiety that the economic changes will result in higher prices and open the way for such capitalist troubles as bankruptcy and unemployment. In any case, the success of Hungary's flirtation with capitalist economics will ultimately depend on Moscow: every dip in the East-West temperature hits Hungary like a cold spell. Budapest downplayed East German Leader Erich Honecker's decision not to visit West Germany; instead it emphasizes the possible improvements in superpower relations that might result from the Washington meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...West Germans knew something was amiss when Honecker avoided making any comments about East-West relations during a noticeably short visit to a West German exhibition at the Leipzig Trade Fair early last week. Said a Bonn official who watched the puzzling performance: "That was not the look of a man about to go West." A West German environmentalist who met with Honecker shortly after the decision to postpone the trip was made public said that the East German leader had complained about the "gross insults" he had received from Bonn. But Honecker also expressed his continuing determination to "limit...