Article: Behind spread of unrest in Kremlin empire.

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U.S. News & World Report
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September 3, 1984
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Two unresolved questions lie behind the bitter disputes that are eating away at the Soviet Union's Communist empire in Eastern Europe--

Will the Kremlin succeed in forcing its allies to support Moscow's freeze in dealing with the U.S. and the West?

Or will East Germany, with backing from comradely neighbors, manager to defend the bridges it is building to the capitalist world in the face of undisguised Soviet disapproval? The showdown may come by late September, when East Germany's Erich Honecker plans to pay an official visit to West Germany to confer with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Honecker's trip, firs by a top German Communist leader across ...

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