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...clash that followed -- perhaps intended by Gaddafi -- threw the focus back on Washington's seeming eagerness to swing a big stick at easy targets. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze noted that the dogfight had "poisoned the atmosphere" as 142 nations opened a five-day conference in Paris over the weekend on ways to stop the increasing spread of chemical weapons. "Gaddafi must be pleased over the incident," said an Italian official last week. "It gives him a chance to play the victim...
...their loved ones could be accounted for. On Friday Moscow suddenly reversed itself after dogged rescuers miraculously pulled out of the debris 21 more people, one in Spitak and the rest in Leninakan, who by then had been buried alive for more than a week. Said - Armenian official Eduard Aikazian: "We will continue looking for survivors until there isn't the slightest possibility of finding anybody...
...During lunch later that day with Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Gorbachev mentioned the earthquake briefly, noting that the damage was thought to be "very serious in some places." Some time after that, news of the growing toll reached him. Just after midnight, a visibly shaken Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze summoned the press to the Soviet U.N. mission on Manhattan's East 67th Street and announced that Gorbachev would go home later that day to direct the recovery effort...
Peres cited the reaction of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who personally thanked the chief of an Israeli consular delegation in Moscow, Aryeh Levine, for Israel's help in the affair...
...amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit," said Harry Truman. While Americans for the moment seem to have abandoned this axiom, Mikhail Gorbachev has picked it up. In a private White House ceremony not long ago, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze handed President Reagan a Russian box. Inside was a glittering gold medal, the first struck in the Soviet Union commemorating the new arms agreement. "The General Secretary wanted you to have it since you are the architect of the INF treaty," said Shevardnadze. Reagan's surprise was as great as his gratification...