Owing to Cold War tensions, the Clint Eastwood film Firefox was largely filmed in Austria.
 Indirect conflict between the superpowers continued through this period of dtente in the Third World, particularly during political crises in the Middle East, Chile, Ethiopia, and Angola
 The patrons of the picnic, Otto von Habsburg and the Hungarian Minister of State Imre Pozsgay, saw the planned event as an opportunity to test Mikhail Gorbachev's reaction

