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Gorbachev also agreed to reopen diplomatic relations with the Vatican and discussed a possible papal visit to the Soviet Union sometime in the future. John Paul hedged on that, making his acceptance conditional upon some evidence of real improvement in the situation of Soviet Catholics. But the Pope did offer...
Gorbachev made those remarks in Rome's city hall, where the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Community was signed in 1957. Although 32 years late to the party, he once again proclaimed his support of a European "commonwealth of sovereign democratic states" and urged that a 35-nation Helsinki...
Before departing from Italy on Friday afternoon, Gorbachev also offered a revisionist view of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the reforms of the Prague Spring. Earlier that day, the new Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party branded the invasion as wrong. Asked at a Milan press...
As he ran down his inventory of offers, the President at first seemed nervous but began to sound more confident and relaxed, as he promoted everything from an international conference next year on global warming to an increased exchange of college students and a joint endorsement of the idea of...
Bush also gave Gorbachev a list of about 20 names of Soviet citizens who were seeking to emigrate. On Sunday Baker was to give Shevardnadze a list of 95 more names. At summits throughout the 1970s and much of the '80s, the U.S. regularly presented such lists to the Soviet...