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...Gorbachev's reforms and initiatives--which include pulling out of Afghanistan, signing the INF, adopting hard-line budgeting, providing more and better consumer products and importing Coca-Cola, Billy Joel and openess--are themselves symptomatic of a dilemma which looms large in Kremlin minds. The Soviets are coming to grips with the fact that they cannot economically or politically afford to keep up the arms race and their policy of expansion at the expense of domestic priorities...
...short, the rise of the new era in East-West relations is not due to some new-found good intentions in the Kremlin but rather to the fact that Gorbachey sought a solution to problems--created by long-term American post-war policies--immediately besetting the Soviet Union...
Gorbachev's two-hour stop to the politically neutral, staunchly Roman Catholic Ireland was the first by a Kremlin leader. It was Gorbachev's first overseas visit since a December trip to the United States...
...satellites distance themselves from Moscow without provoking a Kremlin crackdown...
...Eastern Europe. Conservative Politburo member Viktor Chebrikov, former head of the KGB, last month berated "antisocial elements" for attempting to "direct the masses toward anarchy." Pravda responded contrarily, suggesting that the ruling party might have to consider even "formal agreements" with independent groups. At the same time, the Kremlin has put down in the Baltic republics the kind of political muscle flexing it has tolerated farther south...