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...like an amiable sidekick and Bush lapsed into the prenomination gawkiness that used to plague him whenever he stumbled across Reagan's shadow. Afterward, Mikhail and Raisa's foray into Manhattan provoked more excitement than any other visit since Pope John Paul II's in 1979. Even the devastating Armenian earthquake that forced Gorbachev to rush home early, and the sudden resignation of his Chief of the General Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, added dramatic punctuations to his visit...
...same time, private U.S. groups, many of them organized by Armenian Americans, were amassing money, clothing and other supplies under the auspices of the American Red Cross. In Glendale, Calif., home to many of the state's 300,000 Armenians, a relief group quickly collected $7 million in pledges. In Cambridge, Mass., sister city to Yerevan, a disaster relief fund was launched to send medical supplies to Armenia. This outpouring of aid from Americans helped underscore Gorbachev's words when he told the U.N. General Assembly last week that "our common goal" can only be reached through cooperation...
YEREVAN, U.S.S.R.--Survivors of the Armenian earthquake are freezing to death at night because only a fraction of the thousands of tents sent to the disaster area reach the homeless, a Soviet newspaper reported yesterday...
...worldwide outpouring of aid has overwhelmed the backward, mountainous region hit hardest by the Armenian earthquake, clogging Yerevan's airport and the two crude highways that link it with the devastation...
...important question for Gorbachev is whether he can retain control in the Soviet Union. While the Soviets claim Gorbachev rushed home early from the United States last week because of the destructive Armenian earthquake which claimed more than 60,000 lives, experts on the Soviet Union openly question whether he did so because of negative reactions from the Soviet military. Soviet armed forces chief of staff Sergie Akhormeyev, who opposed Gorbachev in this latest unilateral move, resigned the same day Gorbachev gave his U.N. speech...