Eastern Europe: Everybody's Winging It

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 31, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

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 ...

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