Word: east-west
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...Soviet hints and American guesses came along just as the Reagan Administration was trying to patch up its bruised image in Western Europe. During the past year, the transatlantic dialogue has deteriorated into a shouting match over high U.S. interest rates, East-West trade and European subsidies for farm products. Thus, in his visits to Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, Paris, Madrid and London, Shultz made a special effort to ease West European fears that the Reagan Administration had little interest in fostering international economic and monetary cooperation...
...French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson gave every appearance of having patched up that squabble. It was announced that several study groups would be set up to explore ways of coordinating trade relations with the Soviet Union, but France still refused to commit itself to a new accord on East-West trade...
...Italy it is called la Pista Bulgara (the Bulgarian Trail), and at diplomatic receptions from London to Moscow the talk quickly turns to the Bulgarian Connection. Everyone in Europe, it seems, has become fascinated by an allegation that, if true, could profoundly undermine East-West relations: that a Turkish gunman's attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II in Rome 19 months ago was masterminded by the Soviet Union, which was angered by the Pontiffs support of Poland's Solidarity Union. The trail, it is rumored, could lead as high as Soviet Leader and former KGB Chief Yuri...
...week, he said he was going "with an open mind, to listen and to learn." But when he returned to Washington five days later. Reagan remained as set and predictable in his ways as he was before his departure. The President continues to see the region through a distorting East-West prism; countries are distinguished only by their allegiance to either capitalism or communism The real problems of Latin America--the social, economic and political inequities that affect different nations in different ways--continue to be ignored...
Hatfield understands what most of his GOP colleagues do not: that the Administration is getting a warped view of reality by looking at Guatemala--and for that matter the rest of Latin America--through an East-West prism. Most of Guatemala's problems have nothing to do with the U.S.-Soviet conflict, but are simply the result of decades of social, political and economic inequities. Of course the Soviets and their Cuban allies have taken advantage of the turmoil in Latin America, but only because the U.S. has made it easy for them to do so. By stopping the chaos...