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...Sunday, Shultz quizzed Andrei D. Sakharov about human rights, arms control and Soviet reforms and met with a group of Jewish refuseniks to underscore U.S. concern for human rights in the Soviet Union...
Though no Torvill and Dean, Soviet Dancers Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin should win in a waltz...
...economy the only thing Gorbachev seems determined to change. Last week he dramatically demonstrated his commitment to glasnost by meeting with Physicist Andrei Sakharov. It was the first time a Soviet leader had ever encountered so prominent a dissident face to face. The exchange took place at the Kremlin, where Gorbachev was receiving members of an international peace and human rights group. Sakharov, whom Gorbachev had freed from internal exile in 1986, handed the Soviet leader a list of 200 political prisoners whose release he sought. Apparently impressed with Gorbachev's openness, Sakharov later declared, "This kind of leader...
...General Secretary. By some accounts, however, KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov hinted that his agency had compiled dossiers on corruption in the Moscow party apparatus that could be highly embarrassing to Grishin. (Chebrikov was then a candidate member of the Politburo; he has since moved up to full membership.) Andrei Gromyko, then Foreign Minister, carried the day with a nominating speech for Gorbachev during which he coined the now celebrated remark, "This man has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth." Gromyko's speech was surprising in two respects: it appears to have been improvised, and it contained none...
...Gorbachev family probably avoided the worst of the suffering: it was on the winning side. Mikhail's grandfather Andrei helped organize the Khleborob (bread producer) collective farm in the year of Gorbachev's birth. Andrei's son Sergei drove a combine for a nearby government machine-tractor station. $ But Mikhail could hardly have helped hearing tales of the disruption that continued during his infancy. As General Secretary, Gorbachev has defended the collectivization and even the repression of the kulaks (well-off peasants), who were deported or executed as class enemies. But perhaps because of boyhood memories, he has criticized...