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...obviously because the two Presidents, dining together, had failed to agree on a use-of- force resolution. Both sides then scrambled to deny any impression of a ( serious split. Bush declared that he and Gorbachev "see eye to eye," and any differences are "extraordinarily minor." Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze both said the Security Council needed to take further action against Iraq, but neither would use what journalists have begun to call "the F word." At a hastily scheduled press conference back in Moscow, Gorbachev dismissed talk of a rift with Bush and suggested, with a smile, that...
With an impish smile, Claiborne Pell, Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, waved a newspaper clipping at Secretary of State James Baker last week. It reported that Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze had told his country's parliament he would seek its prior approval for any military involvement in the Persian Gulf. "Can you make the same promise?" asked Pell. "We will continue to consult," replied Baker. But he added, "What I cannot do is make a general, across-the-board commitment...
Almost lost amid the hoopla was a meeting held on the same day in New York City between U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. After five hours of discussion, capping more than 15 years of negotiation, the superpowers agreed "in principle" to reduce their conventional arms in Europe to the same level. Never before in history have two sides willingly agreed to destroy so many weapons...
Secretary of State James Baker called it "a rendezvous with history." Said Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze: "We have closed the book on World War II and started a new age." The two men were describing the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, signed in Moscow last week by the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and the two Germanys. As Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev looked on, West German Foreign Minister Hans- Dietrich Genscher and East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere affixed their signatures, followed by the foreign ministers of the four Allied powers. Then...
...Persian Gulf, a squadron of American warships will steam into Vladivostok's Golden Horn harbor this week for the first visit by the U.S. Navy in more than 50 years. Last week, while a pinafored band practiced The Stars and Stripes Forever in Revolution Square, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze was a few blocks away, addressing a conference of about 100 experts on Asia from 19 countries. "Not bad for what is still officially classified as a closed city," remarked Vladimir Kuznetsov, the provincial governor...