Politics: Eastern Europe’s Suicide Pact

VITAL SIGNSrnPOLITICSrnEastern Europe'srnSuicide Pactrnby Tomislav SunicrnEastern Europeans are plagued byrnprovincialism: they believe that everythingrncoming from the West must intrinsicallyrnbe good. Yesterday, the intellectualrnfashion, spreading from Berkeleyrnto the University of Vincennes in France,rnconsisted of regurgitating the dogmarnof Yugoslav "self-management" andrnlearning the catechism of "socialismrnwith a human face." Today . . .