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...trip was unannounced, perhaps to ensure that increasingly accurate mujahedin antiaircraft gunners would not be paying special attention to the skies around Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. But when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Anatoli Dobrynin, the chief of the Central Committee's International Department and for 24 years Moscow's Ambassador to Washington, stepped off their plane at Kabul's international airport last week, it was obvious that the Soviet Union was sending a public -- and very interesting -- message. Shevardnadze and Dobrynin, the most senior Moscow officials to visit Afghanistan since Soviet troops invaded that country...
Reflecting the importance that Moscow attaches to its relations with India, Gorbachev was accompanied by his wife Raisa and a high-level delegation that included Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Central Committee Secretary Anatoli Dobrynin and Military Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev. The Soviet leader was welcomed as a "crusader for peace" by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and cheered by schoolchildren and villagers who lined the route from the airport into New Delhi. The next day Gorbachev laid a wreath at the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence, and planted a magnolia tree nearby. While...
...Boston to Buenos Aires can already hear carols resounding through stores. Some salesclerks, however, may find the ceaseless piped-in tunes too much of a good thing. In Linz, Austria, suffering department-store workers have sought their union's help. "It's a clear case of psychoterror," said Eduard Anger, president of the Union of Employees in Private Industry. Relentless repetition of standards like Jingle Bells can cause headaches and leave listeners dizzy, Anger says. He is asking stores to cut some of the caroling, raising clerks' hopes for more silence and less Silent Night...
...almost as if the Soviets and Americans who met last week in Vienna to pick up where they had left off on arms control at the Iceland summit also decided to mimic the outcome at Reykjavik. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz started the talks with friendly smiles and expressions of hope. Then, two days later, they emerged frustrated, each blaming the other for their failure to break the Reykjavik stalemate. Before Shevardnadze boarded a plane back to Moscow, he said the talks had left him with a "bitter taste." Declared Secretary Shultz...
...possibility of adjusting programs that might not work." Still, Peking is wary. Says a Chinese journalist in Moscow: "Gorbachev has not taken a step forward. He has merely lifted his foot." The Japanese, too, are cautious. Soviet efforts to warm relations began last January, when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze traveled to Tokyo. Since then, Moscow has wooed Tokyo with diplomatic concessions and hints of a Gorbachev visit, perhaps as early as January. In Vladivostok, Gorbachev pointedly called for "profound cooperation" between Moscow and Tokyo. Japan has the technology Moscow needs to awaken the sluggish Soviet economy and develop...