Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Soviet journalists proved to be diplomats at heart. Despite persistent questions about Gorbachev's reaction to the protests, a Soviet correspondent evaded the topic and kept insisting that the real story was the renewed friendship between two great countries. In private, however, Gorbachev could not control his curiosity. Late Monday evening he summoned Soviet journalists to his country's embassy and peppered them with questions about what was happening in the streets...
...explosion of people power, the State Department could do little but advise Beijing to use caution, and it had only a few desultory comments about the historic handshake between Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping. Finding American officials who were even slightly uneasy about the freshly minted Sino-Soviet friendship was almost impossible. Was George Bush worried? "No problem," said the President. "A healthy development," said Secretary of State James Baker. Only Vice President Dan Quayle displayed a hint of wariness. Yes, he said, last week's comradeship was good news, but he added a sensible qualifier: "Provided that...
...White House see any reason to make changes in Bush's Friday speech. The President spoke not just of easing tensions but of superpower "friendship." Said Bush: "The United States now has as its goal much more than simply containing Soviet expansionism -- we seek the integration of the Soviet Union into the community of nations." But, confirming what his lieutenants had been saying privately, Bush put the onus on the Soviet Union to make further moves to bring that happy state about. "A new relationship cannot be simply declared by Moscow or bestowed by others," he said. "It must...
...want the Soviet-Chinese border to be protected only by friendship," Gerasimov said...
...Gorbachev told the masses the Soviet and Chinese peoples enjoy a very good friendship," Xinhua said...