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...historic meeting between Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping took place amid a protest by hundreds of thousands of people who took control of giant Tiananmen Square to demand democratic reforms...
When rigid idealogues ran the Soviet Union and China, tinkering with the father of communism's ideas would have been heresy, but Gorbachev and Deng are trying to change the system of control they blame for paralyzing their economies...
...said Gorbachev told Deng, China's 84-year-old senior leader, "The way we adapt to these conditions will determine the influence of socialism on the world...
After the meeting with Deng, Gorbachev conferred with Premier Li Peng and Zhao to wrap up the historic fence-mending...
...voting membership on the Communist Party's ruling Politburo. This week Shevardnadze confers with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker in Moscow, then flies to Bonn to meet with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Early next week he heads to Beijing for the long-awaited summit between Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. The swift pace of change during Shevardnadze's almost four-year tenure at Smolensky Square has left foreign diplomats, to say nothing of his weary staff in Moscow, a bit breathless...