As the seven fighting allies of the Pacific converged on Manila last week, two other groups of allies were winding up conferences. Their cautious confrontations were a reminder of how the world's balance of ideological power has altered in the past decade.
How to Reunite? In Moscow, the leaders of nine Communist nations* gathered for a secret summit and a show of Soviet spaceshots. Not long ago, such a gathering would inevitably result in barbed blasts at the West accompanied by the rattle of rockets or the slap of brick on mortar....
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