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...with the U.S., she became Reagan's closest ally in placing new nuclear missiles in Europe to counter Soviet deployments in the early 1980s. Moscow christened her the Iron Lady, a title she savored. Playing an intermediary role between the superpowers, she realized more quickly than Reagan that Mikhail Gorbachev really meant it when he called for the healing of Europe. She affixed her seal of approval during a Gorbachev visit to England in late 1984, before he became leader of the Soviet Union. "I like Mr. Gorbachev," she said. "We can do business together...
Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov cited the "personal chemistry" she enjoyed with Mikhail Gorbachev and lauded her for helping to end the cold war. "She was the first ((in the West)) to recognize Gorbachev | as a world leader, the first to say she could do business with him, and that gave him the ammunition to approach others like Reagan and convince them he was a man to be trusted." Newspapers in Eastern Europe lamented Thatcher because of her unwavering stand against communism and her insistence on human rights. From Britain's partners in the 12-nation European Community, tributes...
...while they demand independence for themselves, the 5 million Slovaks, a third of Czechoslovakia's population, deny any such choice to Slovakia's 600,000 ethnic Hungarians; the more militant nationalists even insist that the Hungarians should be made to speak Slovak. To combat such trends, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at last week's CSCE meeting called for a new "economic, environmental and technological foundation" to counter "dangerous outbreaks of nationalism and separatism...
Maybe not, nor a Gorbachev-Yeltsin pact either. -- Thatcher could lose even by winning her Tory contest. -- Putting on the brakes in Saudi Arabia...
This week the President will be in Europe for a gathering of the heads of 34 nations, including Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Then Bush and congressional leaders will be off to the Persian Gulf to spend Thanksgiving with the soldiers in Saudi Arabia, many of whom have been raising questions about the nature of their mission...