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...diplomatic stage. As the proud fathers of détente-the concept, they say, was born during De Gaulle's 1966 state visit to Moscow when he declared that "the cold war period must be ended" -the French claim they have a particular responsibility to keep East-West tensions low. Western Europe is more vulnerable than the U.S.; the Soviet Union is hundreds, not thousands, of miles away. The French also have an economic stake in détente: last year trade between the two nations amounted to $3.7 billion. Yet too often France's search for independence...
...dissidents still argue that their country's Marxist-Leninist system can be reformed from within. Not Alexander Solzhenitsyn: he has never swerved from his belief in the inherent evil of Communism. Last week, the Nobel-prizewinning novelist composed this essay for TIME in response to the crisis in East-West relations created by the Soviet conquest of Afghanistan. Solzhenitsyn argues that Afghanistan is merely the latest demonstration of the U.S.S.R.s insatiable desire for world conquest. As in his grim 1978 Harvard commencement address, he chides the West for weakness. But the West may yet prevail, he says...
...BOTTOM line is that Canadians must confront an election a mere six months after going to the polls. Attitudes in Toronto this week ranged from disgust to, at best, martyr-like tolerance. The May 22 results clearly showed a polarization along East-West lines. The Liberals dominated Quebec, the Tories swept the West and the NDP chipped away across the country. Conservative primacy in Ontario swung the scales to the Tories, but this time a surge in Liberal sentiment seems certain in Ontario...
...Relaxed East-West relations also opened major new export markets. In the 1960s American farm products were sold mainly to Britain and The Netherlands or given away to India, Egypt and other developing nations as foreign aid. Through the '50s, and well into the '60s, the U.S. simply did not know what to do with its surplus grain and stored it at a cost of billions. But in the past decade the surplus production began being exported to the Soviet Union, China and newly rich Japan. Americans take justified pride in high technology exports like computers...
...belief in the pre-eminence of geopolitics with his old, still strongly held belief in the importance of global issues and abstract principles. But already his Administration has had to revise, if not reverse, its course in a number of key respects. As a consequence of the increase in East-West tensions, the world is farther than ever from the objective of disarmament that Carter proclaimed in his Inaugural Address. With Harold Brown's statements in China last week about Sino-American common interests in countering Soviet expansionism, the Administration abandoned the last pretense of the "evenhandedness" it promised...