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After Mikhail Gorbachev laid the final blows to Soviet Communism, who’s going to stop him from laying a few harmless smooches on the cheek of a pretty woman? Not Miranda L. Kobritz, a Divinity School student who found herself the object of the former Soviet president’s affections last month while riding an elevator with him at a hotel in New York City...
...Cross Meets Kremlin The historic 1989 meeting between Gorbachev and John Paul...
...return from the Reykjavik summit, Reagan sounds a bit frustrated that the Soviets aren't buying his promise to share Star Wars technology in exchange for a reduction in all offensive missiles. "I have never entertained a thought that SDI could be a bargaining chip. I did tell Gorbachev that if and when we had such a system ... we'd share such a defense with them. I don't think he believes...
...western Pakistan that borders Afghanistan is dotted with religious schools imparting the crude religious teaching that spawned the Taliban is that these were built during the 1980s by the Saudi and Pakistani government to indoctrinate the next generation of mujahedeen to fight the Soviets. (Nobody had expected that Mikhail Gorbachev would suddenly bring the Red Army home...
...Ilham's appointment a coup, is threatening mass demonstrations. Urbane and sinister, Aliyev rose through the ranks of the KGB and Soviet Communist Party hierarchy to the Politburo, where he was famous for spectacularly fulsome tributes to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. His career withered with the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev, but by 1993 he had maneuvered himself into the presidency of the newly independent Azerbaijan with a performance worthy of a Shakespearean villain. He first offered assistance to Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijan's populist but inexperienced President. He then distanced himself as military and political opposition to Elchibey grew, and finally...