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Right now Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's scheduled return to office seems a bit dicey, but he should take heart from a series of recent amazing resurrections of leaders around the world. And remember: Gorbachev is mulling a run for the Russian presidency...
...snail's pace of change, who wonder why freedom must be negotiated at all. This would not be the first time the Nobel Peace Prize was premature. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho won the award in 1973, but the fighting in Vietnam continued for two more years. Gorbachev got the prize in 1990, shortly before he was overtaken by events he could not control. In this case, perhaps, the award will be a harbinger and will prop up its recipients and the peace process. Neither man can afford for his counterpart to fail. De Klerk's fragility does...
...also given the Soviets an incentive to return to the bargaining table and offer serious proposals in the hope of tightening the bonds of arms control around SDI itself. If there is a summit in November or December, Reagan the Star Warrior might be able to extract from Mikhail Gorbachev an agreement-in-principle for a trade-off between existing Soviet offensive forces and the American SDI while it is still only a gleam in the President's eye. Since there are reasons to question whether SDI is scientifically feasible or strategically wise, restricting the program to research in exchange...
...they wanted to ban not only development and testing but also research on ''space-strike arms,'' a term they defined in a way that was so comprehensive and one-sided it might have meant the cancellation of the space shuttle. Then, in an interview last August with TIME, Gorbachev said that what he called fundamental research would not be covered by the ban. But Soviet officials subsequently explained that ''purposeful'' research on strategic defenses would still be forbidden. Since purpose would be a matter of declared intention, the American SDI would be outlawed, while the Soviets could continue testing huge...
...whether he will give it at the historic Brandenburg Gate, near the former site of the Berlin Wall. (Campaign staffers reportedly were looking for alternate sites after Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her displeasure about the prospect of a presidential candidate speaking where Ronald Reagan in 1987 demanded, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!") Campaign officials are not even divulging which officials Obama plans to meet with, though some details have begun to leak. A diplomatic source tells TIME that King Abdullah II of Jordan plans to press Obama to promise that, if elected, he would place a higher priority than...