THE CHINA SYNDROME.

Discusses four models of reform being tested in community countries. Emphasis on relatives roles of economic and political liberalization; Hungary's simultaneous testing of glasnost and perestroika; Soviet Union's support to glasnost, creating socialist unrest in the process; Promotion of perestroika in China; Maintenance of rigid Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy in both economics and politics in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Cuba.