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...have "liberalizing reforms" or "restructuring" occurred in Eastern Europe, which still lies in the grasp of communist political and military domination. Moscow has not loosened its grip on its Eastern European satellites and continues to force their contributions to the Warsaw Pact's military buildup...
...Warsaw Pact leads NATO in all conventional weapons and outnumbers NATO forces in Western Europe by two-to-one in men, tanks and artillery. On the important central front in West Germany, Soviet tanks are five times more numerous than NATO forces. Gorbachev has only hinted at possible negotiations on conventional weapons, and only after he has succeeded in reducing INF and strategic nuclear forces--NATO's only counterbalance to Soviet tanks and troops...
Yugoslavia's economic turmoil was echoed last week in Poland and Rumania. In Warsaw consumers scoured shops for bargains after the government proposed price hikes that would double food costs and triple energy bills. Poles will vote on the reform package, aimed at reviving the tottering economy, in a national referendum this Sunday. In Rumania police reportedly broke up protests by some 5,000 workers in the city of Brasov, demonstrating against harsh labor conditions and growing food shortages...
Like Communist rulers elsewhere, Polish officials have not been eager to submit their decisions to a vote of the people. But to win public support for a sweeping economic-reform package, Warsaw announced last week that it will put the measures to a referendum in late November. The plebiscite will be the first since the late 1940s...
...agency had more than 25 spies in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations as a result of Casey's determination to improve intelligence gathering...