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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reverie will end, as did the false dawn of the Khrushchev years. Glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) may turn out to be less "irreversible" than Gorbachev proclaims them to be. Even so, his reforms can no longer be dismissed as a mere matter of style, of a telegenic new face in the Kremlin. Gorbachev is that, to be sure. Also a dedicated Communist. Also a ruthless political opportunist. In 1987 he became something more, a symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread...
Aside from the response of outspoken spectators, reaction to last week's verdict was restrained, almost relieved, because the black community had feared that the defendants would, like Goetz, be acquitted of all major charges. As it turned out, however, three youths face up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter: Jon Lester, 18, Scott Kern, 18, and Jason Ladone, 17. Many of those involved in the trial felt that at least a measure of justice had been meted out. Said Jean Griffith: "God, in the end, did what was right...
...poet promptly sold the car on the black market and returned to ask Gorbachev for help in buying another. Says Maximov: "Gorbachev did not usually lose his temper, but on that occasion he started shouting and threw the poet out of his office, ordering him never to show his face there again...
MOST CONFUSING FISH DISH Dubbed Skin Caviar by its maker, La Prairie, and packed with a silvery spoon, this chemical anti-aging goop looks good enough to eat. It raises the question of whether these tiny pearly grains are meant to be spread on toast or on one's face. The latter is the answer, of course, but if stored in the refrigerator, Skin Caviar, at $65 for two ounces, could lead to some surprise snacking...
...world' s $most formidable leaders. He has begun to shake $the Soviet economy from decades of lethargy, $open the machinery of government to greater $public scrutiny and inject a new flexibility into $Soviet behavior abroad. Millions of television $viewers around the world have grown $accustomed to his face -- and welcomed the $December agreement he signed with the U. S. $banning intermediate- range nuclear missiles. $The West still distrusts him, and his own $countrymen do not always agree with his $reforms, but Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev so $dominated the world scene in 1987 that he is $TIME's Man of the Year...