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...formidably confident Mikhail Gorbachev showed a touch of meekness when the Norwegian ambassador called on him last week. "He came very gently toward us and asked if he could really believe the rumors," Dagfinn Stenseth recalled. "I told him if he was thinking of the Nobel Peace Prize, he could." A smiling Gorbachev later said that he was "deeply moved and excited" and that the honor would provide "support and inspiration" at a critical time in his reform efforts...
Thanks to increases and an improved exchange rate for the Norwegian krone, the prize is worth about $710,000, or about eight times Gorbachev's annual salary. It is a sum that would see any Soviet citizen through a lifetime of shortages, but the President plans to donate the money to charity. One likely recipient: a fund for young victims of the Chernobyl disaster...
...Soviet foreign policy expert wryly commented to journalists on the laurels bestowed upon Mikhail Gorbachev and in the process proved just how institutionalized glasnost really is: "I am sure he deserved the Peace Prize, ((but)) I wouldn't think he deserved the Nobel Prize for Economics...
...Baghdad two weeks ago, Soviet envoy Yevgeni Primakov dangled the possibility of a Middle East conference -- with both Soviet and U.S. participation -- if the Iraqi leader left Kuwait. Though there was no evidence whatsoever that Moscow's offer had Washington's blessing, Primakov is a trusted confidant of Mikhail Gorbachev's and planned last week to brief Bush on his Iraqi visit...
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was awarded the peace prize on Monday...