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LAST week TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott was given a rare interview with Nicolae Ceauşescu. Some excerpts...
...that long-term commitments to their Red partners are running out, though, the Poles are finding a growing market in the West. "We can sell all the ships we produce," Wlodzimierz Korchot, economic director of the industry's trade union, told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott. "We are already fully contracted to capacity through 1975. The Soviet Union alone could buy all we can make...
...least-known and most loyal of Russia's Eastern European satellites is little Bulgaria (pop. 8.5 million). TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott recently visited some of the country's major urban, industrial and agricultural centers and sent this report...
...ideas and increased travel, especially from East to West, the vaunted era of detente will be merely an armed truce rather than a period of genuinely relaxed tensions. For those caught inside the East-bloc borders it will also be a period of repression and pretense. TIME'S Strobe Talbott talked to one East-bloc professor and author, who shrugged: "We have to chant Marxist-Leninist slogans because otherwise our leaders would get worried that the system that gives them their power is in danger. And if they begin to worry seriously that detente means an end to their...
Many Communist leaders are openly nervous about overextending their countries' contacts with the West. A Czechoslovak government spokesman told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "In the aftermath of the security conference, we will have to take extra steps to prevent ideological diversion. It will be a great menace to us, and we must counteract it vigorously and vigilantly." In East Germany, even as the government was negotiating the inter-German treaty with Bonn last month, its police were installing deadly new electronic devices along the East-West barrier that would fire automatically at would-be escapees...