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...across East-West borders. Then there will be human rights, always a touchy topic for any Soviet leader and one on which Gorbachev is preparing a vigorous counter-campaign. In his U.N. speech, the President asserted that "we Americans do not accept that any government has the right to command and order the lives of its people" and placed this philosophical belief "at the core of our deep and abiding differences with the Soviet Union." Aides affirmed that Reagan will have a good deal more to say on that subject before, and at, the summit...
...taught so rigorously that a group of visiting professors from the Harvard Business School, after sitting in on classes last year, pronounced their own institution to be "the West Point of capitalism." Cadets learn leadership firsthand by giving orders to those they outrank in the cadet chain of command--their classmates as well as plebes. "It isn't easy ordering your roommate to shine his shoes," shrugs one cadet sergeant. "But you have...
...Hungary, Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union, had been expected to gather in January. But Mikhail Gorbachev's predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko, was too ill to travel then, and indeed died only a few weeks later. By contrast, Gorbachev impressed his Warsaw Pact comrades with the vitality and ease of command he has demonstrated in the Soviet Union. When the two days of secret talks at the foot of Mount Vitosha were over, Gorbachev had sent a message to allies and adversaries alike: the Warsaw Pact, whose 6 million fighting men make it the world's largest military machine...
...Soviet soldiers stationed in their countries as an army of occupation. That impression is reinforced by the ultimate control exercised by Soviet officers during military maneuvers, which are conducted four times a year. A study conducted last year for the Canadian Defense Department that circulated around the NATO high command concluded, perhaps too optimistically: "The entry of NATO troops into Eastern Europe would trigger a collapse of the Communist regimes there...
Early this year G. Kirk Raab, the second in command at Abbott Laboratories, a large drug company, left to become president of Genentech. To prepare for the introduction of Protropin, Raab helped build a national marketing organization, which includes 15 hospital-based sales representatives with an average of 15 years' experience. Now Raab is working on plans to sell interferon and TPA (tissue plasminogen activator), a drug that dissolves blood clots and thus may help prevent heart attacks...