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Despite past zigzags, there were indications last week that the Administration was inching toward a thaw in East-West relations. In a letter to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, congratulating him on his election as President of the U.S.S.R., Reagan wrote: "I hope that together we can find ways to promote peace by reducing the level of armaments." In testimony delivered before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State George Shultz also struck a note of tentative conciliation. "We do not accept as inevitable the prospect of endless, dangerous confrontation with the Soviet Union," he declared. "We now seek...
Western governments are reluctant to link a religious pilgrimage to East-West diplomacy, but the papal visit will doubtless prove a pivotal event in shaping the alliance's attitudes toward Poland. Support for the economic sanctions that were imposed after the military crackdown has been eroding slowly but inexorably. The West German government argues that trade restrictions have not influenced Jaruzelski's policies and that, if anything, they could further diminish what little leverage the West had. In Italy, business with Poland goes on as usual. Even U.S. diplomats feel uneasy about the continuing deadlock and have quietly...
...more than a decade, Fekete has advocated more and freer East-West trade. Said he last week: "We have 400 million people in the East who are very much interested in buying the consumer goods you produce." Hungary has actually been rather successful at selling many items in the West, from the original Rubik's Cube to Crown-Ikarus buses, which are used in Portland, Ore., and San Mateo, Calif...
Officially the Administration appeared willing to accept Andropov's overtures as a tentative thaw in East-West tensions. If Moscow was ready "to take concrete steps" to improve relations, said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg, it would find "a ready partner" in the Reagan Administration...
LOGICALLY ENOUGH, the ideological framework that hinders economic recovery also perverts international political relations. The inability of the United States to see the world through anything other than an East-West prism is not a new factor, but has become particularly dangerous given the upheavals in Central America. The United States is presently engaged to some extent in El Salvador and Nicaragua. In both countries, the Administration is pursuing ideologically rigid policies that seem destined to fail...