Article: Lost to the world. (the new but unstable relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States) (editorial)

Lost to the world

ABUSE gives way to praise, Marxism-Leninism yields to the vigour of liberal democratic ideas, and the superpowers do business in a spirit of genial co-operation. It is all still new enough to amaze, but maybe not for much longer. Gradually the onlookers are coming to realise that all this billing and cooing between the United States and the Soviet Union may mean a world run by pigeons.

Not that anyone wants America and Russia to return to their old cold-war hostilities. Certainly not. But the superpower love-in, displayed to such effect last weekend in Wyoming's Jackson Hole and then repeated at the United Nations in New York (see ...

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