University Daily Kansan, May 3, 1985 Page 10
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Soviets slipping, report says
By United Press International
LONDON — The Soviet Union is losing control of East European affairs as communist bloo countries look increasingly to the West for hard currency and technology, a respected research center said in a report published today.
In its yearly world survey, the International Institute for Strategic Studies said U.S.-Soviet relations were at a very low ebb, and there was little prospect for rapid improvement.
The 1984-85 survey warned that low living standards in Eastern Europe could trigger unrest there.
*Living standards, often depressed in the delinquency policy, throttling income*, 1985.
where social unrest becomes a real possibility," it said.
The survey pointed to the continued defiance by Polish activists loyal to the banned Solidarity trade union against the pro-independence, loosening grip on Eastern Europe.
"Urrest in Poland, emphasizing the Polish authorities' inability to crush dissent and restore their authority, underlined how far the USSR has lost control over East European affairs," the report said.
"Soviet insecurity and inflexibility were shown in the mid-year effort to check the development of a closer relationship between the two Germanies" and by Moscow's campaign to prevent East Germany's president from visiting Bonn, it said.
Institute Director Robert O'Neill said Eastern Europe was looking
increasingly to the West for hard currency and technology
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is demanding import restrictions inside the bloc in order to gain trade issues with the West, the survey said.
The survey also said political trouble could easily develop in Warsaw Pact countries.
The report said that unless Moscow could find a different approach to alliance management, the Soviet Union's allies were a declining asset.
"In any or all of four Warsaw Pact countries — East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia a succession crisis could have unfolded from the long-entrenched party leaders, all of whom are over 70 (years old)."
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