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The present state of EastWest relations 09 May. 2022 This article, written in 1976 by thenSecretary General Joseph Luns, may evoke the old adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same. The 1970s saw a period of détente, or the easing of tensions, between the "West" (NATO) and the "East" (the Warsaw Pact, led by the Soviet Union).