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...touched down last Saturday at London's Heathrow Airport, British officials were busy trying to downplay the importance of his eight-day official visit. The British feared that the trip would focus too much Western attention on his status as the most likely successor to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko. That in turn might weaken Gorbachev's chances and strengthen those of his chief rival for the job, Grigori Romanov, 61, a fellow Politburo member widely considered to be a dogmatic hardliner. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will be looking for any clues to Soviet thinking on arms control...
Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies Nar O. Yalman would like to give a book of Buddha's thought to both Reagan and Sovier leader Konstans U. Chernenko. He objects strongly to the gift of Plato's Republic because "that book has produced dictatorships." The Curator Middle Eastern Ethnology at the Peabody Musum would like for himself "a painting as marvelous Van Gogo's 'Portrait of the Peabody to hang in my office...
...President is committed to getting results," declared National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. "We will be both flexible and constructive." Promised Soviet Leader Konstantin U. Chernenko: There are no preconditions, and the Soviet Union is willing to discuss all nuclear weapons systems...
Reagan's Star Wars plan to provide a space-based defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles seemed to be emerging as one of the most contentious issues in both capitals. Chernenko mentioned "nonmilitarization of outer space" first in his list of topics to be negotiated, followed by a "reduction of strategic nuclear arms and medium-range nuclear weapons." (He invited Industrialist Armand Hammer, 86, a longtime friend of Soviet leaders, to Moscow as an unofficial pre-Geneva go-between, and Hammer readily accepted...
Word that the superpowers would hold talks early next year in Geneva was the second sign that the Kremlin is looking for a diplomatic opening to the West. The first was that Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, the fast-rising heir apparent to President Konstantin Chernenko, will lead a Soviet delegation to Britain in mid-December. Gorbachev's trip will mark the first visit of a top-ranking Soviet leader to Britain in eight years. For Gorbachev, who has already seen more of the West than all but a few Politburo members, the visit might be the dress rehearsal...