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...Shultz's journey, his first through Eastern Europe, took him to three countries--Rumania, Hungary and Yugoslavia--that have, in different ways, managed to deviate from the Kremlin line...
Ceausescu is desperate for more Western trade. Because his highly centralized economy has faltered badly, living standards are so low that the government requires citizens to light each room with only a single 40-watt bulb and for no more than six hours a day. Indeed, Shultz and his entourage decided not to stay overnight in Bucharest in part because they were unsure whether there would be adequate light and heat. When the Secretary's motorcade left the capital at 6 p.m., the city was already as blacked out as London during the Blitz...
...Shultz's Eastern journey had been timed to take advantage of the postsummit mood of goodwill between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In the past, East bloc countries have felt freer to deal with the West during periods of detente. But loosening the Soviet grip can be risky. Whenever East European countries have tilted too far to the West, the Soviets have forcibly jerked them back, as they did to Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Poland...
...Soviets responded peevishly to Shultz's trip, and especially to his rhetoric, which the Communist Party daily Pravda denounced as a throwback to the cold war era. Soviet Americanologist Georgi Arbatov asserted that Shultz has backed down from his pre-summit posture of conciliation toward the Soviet camp and has instead bowed to pressure from "right-wing circles" that, according to Soviet demonology, control the White House...
...Kremlin propagandists insisted that the real purpose of Shultz's trip to Europe, which included stops in Britain, Belgium and West Germany as well as in Eastern Europe, was to push for President Reagan's "infamous" Strategic Defense Initiative. If so, Shultz did not fare much better with his own allies than he did with the Easterners. The West German government last week agreed to discuss participating in Star Wars research, and hence share in the funding, but pointedly refused to embrace publicly the concept of a space- based missile defense...