Word: pacts
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...wouldn't be difficult. Difficult would be cutting Poland free from the strangling grasp of the Warsaw Pact. Difficult would be resuscitating the Polish economy after years of stale communist leadership. Difficult would be restoring Polish self-confidence after a half-century of subjugation...
...flutter of colorful balloons, the sputtering of rattletrap Trabants and Wartburgs and -- pop! -- the burst of champagne corks. It was the Great Trek Westward, and as East Germans headed for new lives in West Germany, the world witnessed a unique spectacle: an East European country defying its Warsaw Pact brethren and openly collaborating with the West to aid and abet refugees in their flight to freedom...
...capitalist nation. To open its borders, Budapest suspended key paragraphs of a 1969 bilateral treaty between Hungary and East Germany that forbids the unauthorized passage of citizens of either country into third countries. Budapest's bold maneuver provided the West with a vivid glimpse of fractures within the Warsaw Pact -- and raised unnerving questions about the refugee tide that might ensue if the Iron Curtain was completely dismantled...
...very difficult and very unusual situation. Hungary, along with Poland, is the most enthusiastic East- bloc supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Moreover, Gorbachev has pledged noninterference in East European affairs. At the same time, Gorbachev does not want to preside over the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Moscow's unease may in part explain the arrival of Soviet Politburo Member Yegor Ligachev in East Berlin last week. Moscow said the trip was long planned, but there was little doubt that the presence of Ligachev, a hard-liner known for his resistance to Gorbachev's reforms, could not help reassuring...
Hungary's open-door policy further fractures the Warsaw Pact. Meanwhile, back in Honecker land, there are feelings of frustration with an aging dictatorship. -- Are Russians the victims of discrimination in the Baltic states...