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...Soviet tensions have escalated into sanctions. Nonetheless, to the relief of European allies and the discontent of many American conservatives, Haig and Gromyko will meet again this week, in Geneva. "It's going to be a pretty frosty atmosphere," says a Haig assistant. Even so, notes William Hyland, once a policy aide to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, "The most interesting thing about the meeting is that it will take place...
Perhaps the most that can be expected from this week's session is that the two men may develop a rapport based on the understanding that-for everyone's good -the relationship between the two superpowers must improve. Says William Hyland, a former Kissinger staffer who is now a Soviet expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "The real results of the meetings may take time to develop. They could set the tenor of superpower dealings for some time." -By Henry Muller. Reported by Robert Suro and Strobe Talbott/Washington...
...Communist orthodoxy: a strong Catholic Church, private ownership of 75% of the country's farm land, a flourishing dissident movement. Then, the birth of an independent labor movement last August established a rival power center among the very working masses that the party claimed to represent. Says William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "It is the final demonstration that the [Communist] system does not work. The people it's designed to benefit most have finally said they can't stand it any longer." Should that example spread to other East bloc...
Moscow's apparent strategy, says Georgetown's Hyland, appeared to be aimed at maintaining pressure on the Polish party until the hard-liners could gain control. But obviously the Soviets were as worried and mystified as everybody else. As one jittery Soviet official told a West German diplomat in Moscow, "We must be careful. Nobody knows where this crazy Polish drama is taking us all-not just the Soviet Union, but all of us, East and West alike." -By Thomas A. Sancton...
...reached its apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...