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Eastern Europe's unpredictable volatility also has implications for the West. If Communism does shuffle slowly offstage as a failed experiment in Poland or Hungary, there is no guarantee it will be replaced by democracy. Without substantial progress toward economic recovery, the odds are high that social unrest and political chaos will lead to a dictatorship of the left or the right. Yugoslavia too is rent by such severe economic disparities and political tensions linked to strident nationalism that the country threatens to disintegrate into warring provinces...
...would be hard to move legislatively," said a top presidential aide, in an era of tight budgets. But, he added, "if they make the kind of changes they ought to make," the Administration would back Poland and Hungary with the International Monetary Fund, support extending trade waivers, increase high-level contacts and boost exchange programs. Ambassador Palmer recommends joint ventures and small loans directed to specific projects and placed with small commercial banks. He wants President Bush to make an East European tour...
...such devices, including the failure of the cassette player to function normally and more wiring than usual for a portable player. "Its sophistication, and the effort taken to conceal it," said the warning, "suggest it could have been intended for use against an aviation target in support of a 'high risk' operation...
...were not the first. In October, West German police arrested a member of a Syrian-backed guerrilla group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, and discovered a Toshiba Boombeat Model 453 radio- cassette player fitted with explosives and a barometric device designed to explode at high altitudes. In the first week of November, the West Germans held a conference in Wiesbaden to distribute information about the construction of the bomb. Security specialists from Britain and the rest of Europe attended...
Last week a 700-page reconstruction by an investigating magistrate pointed to another culprit: an air-to-air military missile. The evidence, as reported by the Italian press: the fuselage and several bodies recovered from the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea showed traces of a chemical used solely in high- powered missiles...