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...know you're really famous when you forget a world leader is coming to lunch. In a new memoir, Bono, the singer recounts how one Sunday morning his wife answered the door at their Dublin home to find Mikhail Gorbachev "standing with a giant-- I mean giant--teddy bear" for Bono's son. "It was a loose arrangement I'd completely forgotten." It seems saving the world while remaining a rock god can be distracting...
...another. Johnson believes that ultimate political change will come from below, from the sorts of commoners that he portrays in “Wild Grass,” rather than from within the Party. “I think [change] will come from ordinary people, not from some enlightened Gorbachev figure,” Johnson says...
There was other compelling evidence last week that Gorbachev is carrying out a high-level shuffle of the Soviet military. The current Warsaw Pact commander, Marshal Viktor Kulikov, 64, it was rumored, had been given a lesser post. Marshal Vladimir Tolubko, 70, who was in charge of the country's strategic rocket forces, has retired. So has Marshal Alexei Yepishev, 77, chief of the powerful main political directorate of the army and navy; his replacement is General Alexei Lizichev, 57, currently political commissar of Soviet forces in East Germany. Western diplomats believe these changes bear the marks of Gorbachev...
Another of Gorbachev's recent appointments, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, will travel to Washington in September to meet President Reagan. Before that, Shevardnadze will see Secretary of State George Shultz in Helsinki, on July 30. Shultz may ask for an explanation of the latest confrontation between Soviet and American military personnel in East Germany. On June 13, a U.S. Army vehicle was rammed by a Soviet truck near Potsdam. One U.S. officer was injured slightly...
Ahead lie big battles over the budget and tax reform and the much ballyhooed summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan would have seemed a whippersnapper next to Leonid Brezhnev or Yuri Andropov, but now the comparison may cut the other way. Reagan's visitor points out that the new man in the Kremlin is young and healthy. "Yes," grins the convalescing President, "but I'll try not to take advantage...