Word: missteps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Western European leaders worry that a misstep in Poland could touch-off an international crisis of truly ominous dimensions. If Soviet tanks rumble across the Polish border, countries like West Germany and France will feel every vibration. Poland has special meaning for them, and not just because of its proximity. Long-standing cultural ties and a large emigrant population have produced enormous sympathy for Poland in Western Europe. Leaders there know that public opinion would never let them forgive Moscow if it ever intervened. An invasion, they fear, would not only destroy detente but possibly provoke a perilous East-West...