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Article: Tailoring a policy to new realities: the U.S. plays catch up. (The Soviet Empire, Part 2 - Eastern Europe)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 27, 1989
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The division of Europe has dominated East-West relations for almost half a century. Now, as winds of change ftom the Kremlin sweep the East bloc, the Bush administration is re-examining old assumptions and rethinking America's longterm goals. Eastern Europe, says U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Mark Palmer, has become a "new frontier." For the U.S., the urgent question is its role in the transformation of a volatile region.
For four decades, the West took it as a given that the bloc would remain in the Warsaw Pact, forever Communist. Now, the verities are being undermined. Oleg Bogomolov, the Soviet Union's leading academician on Eastern European affairs, ...