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...questioner, Nick Daniloff, a formerNewsweek correspondent to the Soviet Union,asked Gorbachev for an explanation of why he wasarrested in 1986 following the arrest of a Sovietscientist in New York City...
While he admitted that he knew little about thejournalist's specific case, Gorbachev said, "I cansay that it was a retaliatory move. Let me say'thank God' that those years are over...
However, some residents of Kirkland Houseapparently disagreed. They displayed their ownlarge sign, reading "Gorby You The Man."Pool PhotoJoe WrinnRAISA GORBACHEV with Sen. EdWARD M. KENNEDY'54-56 (D.-Mass.)at Friday's speech by FormerSoviet President Mikhail Gorbachev...
...OFFICE BUT STILL CASTING A LONG shadow, Winston Churchill came to Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., and declared that "an iron curtain" had descended across Europe. Last week another idle leader sketched a different vision: Mikhail Gorbachev came to Fulton and called for a world that is "democratic for the whole of humanity." The collapse of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe has released "exaggerated nationalism," old territorial claims and bloodshed, he said. "It would be a supreme tragedy if the world, having overcome the 1946 model, were to find itself once again in a 1914 model...
...cold war, Gorbachev said, both Soviet and Western leaders made mistakes. Moscow wrongly expected communist ideology to triumph after World War II, and the West erred by exaggerating the Soviet threat and "unleashing a monstrous arms race...