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...allow "no room for the dissemination of anticulture," Maltsev implied that Western proposals for an increased flow of ideas and people between East and West would go nowhere. The point was later made more bluntly in a Pravda article, which scoffed that "such impudent claims will meet a firm rebuff...
Surprise. In a move that was clearly intended to add some muscle to that rebuff, the Soviets struck back at the West on the other great European negotiations front, the long-discussed talks on mutual and balanced force reductions (MBFR) by NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations. Last November, NATO proposed that the twelve nations most directly involved should begin the MBFR talks this week in Geneva.* After two months of noncommital silence, Moscow finally responded-twelve days before the talks were to begin. The Soviets made a surprise demand that the location be moved to Vienna and that...
Moscow's rebuff of the West's proposals at Helsinki came as no great surprise. Fearful of the already powerful pull of Western ideas, aspirations and affluence on their own populations, the East bloc regimes have been digging in against detente with the toughest ideological crackdown in years (TIME, Dec. 25). Still, the abrupt Soviet treatment of MBFR suggests that, detente or no, the West may have less leverage than it expected when it comes to prying significant concessions out of Moscow...
...mainly with Soviet ambitions in mind that the Chinese got their Japanese guests to agree to a communique opposing attempts by other countries to "establish hegemony" in the Asia-Pacific area, a seeming rebuff to Moscow. But the Japanese are learning to play four-power politics too. Just before Premier Tanaka left for Peking, Tokyo coyly let it be known that he had written a warm letter to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, emphasizing that Japan wanted to develop close relations with Russia, as well as with China...
...complain more loudly. One complainer can easily be dismissed as a crank or a fussbudget, but the power of the complaint grows mightily with numbers. The burgeoning consumer organizations have discovered that millions of Americans want desperately to complain, but have kept silent out of either fear of rebuff or a sense of futility. The organizations have given the citizen the happy feeling that he has found a sympathetic ear and also relieved him of the awkward burden of having to make himself individually conspicuous...