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...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...
...product prices in each enterprise, and theoretically have the power to fire managers, who are responsible to the councils rather than to a state ministry. Kiro Gligorov, a leader of Yugoslavia's League of Communists and the nation's chief economist, explained to TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "We believe that the state cannot replace private owners in the management of enterprises. Enterprises must manage themselves." They did efficiently enough in 1970 to lift "social product"-the Yugoslav term closest to gross national product-to $14 billion, a 6.7% rise after discounting inflation factors. Among European Communist countries, only...
Vlasta, however, is anxious to keep politics and propaganda out of the case. She has adamantly refused to see Czech journalists or pose for photographs. "This is a private matter," she told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott. "I just want my children to come back home and live with their mother. I can give them love and a good home." Indeed, the home to which the children would return seems secure and wholesome. Vlasta, a component designer for a construction company, and her second husband, who is working his way through catering school, share with her parents a comfortable six-room...