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...Gorby Talks Considering the debt that millions of people owe Mikhail Gorbachev [April 10] for his unique and enormous contributions to peace, it is unconscionable that he is living on a government pension of about $1,400 a month. We should create a special fund for him. For a start, I will gladly contribute half my pension. Cedric Vendyback Kelowna, Canada...
...presidential ambitions of Frist, Clinton and McCain brought to mind a quip attributed to Gore Vidal: "Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." David R. Thiessen Woodstock, Illinois, U.S. Gorby Talks Re your interview with Mikhail Gorbachev [April 10]: Gorbachev was one of the most influential leaders for peace in the 20th century. Although taking the path of peace did not make him a revered figure in Russia, he laid a real foundation for his country to become a dominant economic force in the world. Americans should...
...your interview with Mikhail Gorbachev [April 10]: Gorbachev was one of the most influential leaders for peace in the 20th century. Americans should pay attention to what he said in TIME's interview: "America is intoxicated by its position as the world's only superpower. It wants to impose its will. But America needs to get over that. It has responsibilities as well as power." We Americans need to change our posture...
...amazed to read that Gorbachev's government pension is only 40,000 rubles a month, about $1,400. I wish U.S. Presidents and politicians received similarly meager pensions...
...over Berlin, and in Glassboro, N.J., in 1967 it took a turn for the better as Lyndon Johnson and the Soviet leader met days after the Six-Day War and the defection of Joseph Stalin's daughter to the U.S caused outrage in Moscow. In Iceland in 1986, Gorbachev and Reagan met and almost banned nuclear weapons. When Chinese President Hu Jintao came to the White House on Thursday, the visit lasted five hours including lunch...