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With the exception of Bulgaria, which has strong historic ties to Russia, East bloc attitudes toward the Soviet Union range from distrust to outright loathing, an attitude that stands in sharp contrast to a hunger among East Europeans for most things Western. Through much of the East bloc, youngsters wear blue jeans and dance to Western rock; purple-haired punks are seen in the streets of Warsaw and Budapest. More important, East European governments have turned to the West for the credits and technology that Moscow cannot provide, giving East Europeans a vested interest in the revival of détente...
...most East Europeans, hope for meaningful change depends on substantial shifts within the Soviet Union; thus East bloc citizens are closely watching Gorbachev's moves. But the Soviets are unlikely to allow a wave of economic innovation to sweep through the East bloc, and prospects are even more dim for any significant moves toward greater political freedom or national independence...
...East German schoolbooks. In 1983, East Germany celebrated the 500th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, who is now described as "an initiator of a great revolutionary movement." The celebration underlined Honecker's modus vivendi with East Germany's Protestant churches, which have cautiously criticized the stationing of Soviet and U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe. Ultimately, however, the Euromissile issue led to a major setback for Honecker: the cancellation under pressure from Moscow of a three-day visit to West Germany scheduled for last September. The trip would have been the first ever by an East German Communist Party...
...City and razzle-dazzle a majority of legislators into joining his parade. Only last month he won funding for 21 new MX missiles from a highly skeptical Congress, largely by convincing lawmakers that their assent was crucial to the U.S. bargaining stance at newly opened arms talks with the Soviet Union. Last week all 76 of the Administration's trombones were blaring in Congress's direction yet again, but this time the notes went sour. The Music Man had to offer major legislative concessions to stand a chance of rounding up a winning parade...
...living elsewhere in Central America. (Any funds, of course, would be helpful to the contras, since they would free other money for arms.) The final package, however, was certain to lack the Regan had hoped to use as a bargaining chip in dealing with the increasingly hostile and pro-Soviet Sandinista regime...