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Article: Eastern Europe: Everybody's Winging It
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 31, 1989
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Is George Bush fiddling while Eastern Europe burns? Are
Margaret Thatcher and Francois Mitterrand, foes on all other issues,
playing in the same string section as smoke curls over Warsaw and
Budapest?
Their political opponents say so. In Washington and London,
liberals deplore the "timidity" conservative governments show on
Eastern Europe. In Paris, the conservatives accuse the socialist
Mitterrand of "silence, passivity and absence of imagination."
The outs of all ideological flavors are whacking the ins with
Eastern Europe. The petty politics of partisan advantage elbows
aside the big politics of East-West relations in public discourse on
the issue.
Up to a point, this political ...