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Ironically, Poland's resounding display of democracy seemed likely to make other Soviet-bloc regimes -- already bedeviled by reformist rumblings -- rethink the wisdom of opening up the electoral process. Said a senior Western diplomat in Warsaw: "It may have been the worst possible result for glasnost in Eastern Europe. Every Communist Party in the region must now be aware that democratization is the beginning...
...Polish experience posed a special dilemma for Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. On the one hand, Warsaw's bold moves toward economic and political liberalization would have been unthinkable had Gorbachev not come to power in 1985 and launched his own reforms. On the other hand, the crushing defeat of the Polish Communists could be exploited by Soviet hard-liners as an argument against political reform at home. In fact, Gorbachev's party seemed in little danger of suffering a Polish-style humiliation at the polls. For one thing, the Soviet reform impulse is coming down from the leadership rather than...
Never mind, for the moment, that hard and complicated negotiating remains before NATO and the Warsaw Pact can start cutting their conventional forces in Europe to low, equal numbers. Never mind that Bush's goal of reaching agreement in "six months or maybe a year" and finishing the reductions by 1992 sounds like a pipe dream. Never mind that the estimated $1 billion in potential savings doesn't measurably reduce the U.S. defense budget or redress the "burden-sharing" problem among the allies. Never mind even that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl still disagree...
...Quickly sign an interim agreement locking in the latest Soviet proposals to cut NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery pieces to an equal level, bringing them slightly below those now fielded by NATO. As in all the reductions being considered in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) negotiations under way in Vienna, the reductions would be much deeper for the Warsaw Pact than for NATO...
...WARSAW--Solidarity won a land-slide victory in Poland's most democratic elections in more than 40 years, the Communist Party leaders said yesterday. Apparently, dozens of senior officials were turned out of Parliament...