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That same decidedly Reaganesque social ease made a great impression on the four Congressmen, including Speaker of the House Thomas (Tip) O'Neill Jr., who were invited to a meeting with Gorbachev in the Kremlin two weeks ago. One of the visitors, Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, made detailed notes about the Soviet leader that make him sound remarkably like Washington's own Great Communicator. Gorbachev's greeting to his visitors, noted Conte, was almost fulsome. He had been well briefed by aides, and spoke through an interpreter from color-coded typed notes. He made his points firmly, often...
...Soviet leader appeared to Conte to have an impressive familiarity with things American. Gorbachev said that he had studied U.S. law, and he claimed to have read a 600-page Hoover Institute book, adding, "I noticed many ideas that this Administration is taking." He was not impressed, he said, with the men surrounding the President, calling them "narrow-minded" and benefiting "them selves and not the national interest...
Again and again, reported Conte, Gorbachev urged America to deal with the world as it exists and not to attempt to reshape the Soviet Union. "If the evil empire exists," he said, "let it exist." He also repeated what he said he had told Mrs. Thatcher during his visit to Britain last December: "I have no hope of turning you into a Marxist," implying that his listeners had no hope of turning him into a non-Marxist...
Viewers were first shown NBC's original 2½-minute profile of Mikhail Gorbachev, based largely on the new Soviet leader's euphoric reception in Britain last December: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saying she could do business with him; former Defense Minister Denis Healey finding Gorbachev like a "Western intellectual, a poet." Then came Dolan's version: ominous shots of Soviet troops parading and an overlong interview with Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, who believes that so long as there is fighting in Afghanistan, there should be no talking at Geneva. (Secretary of State George Shultz, who in committee...
...strong-willed career soldier who refused to tailor his views to prevailing political sentiment. Ogarkov's call to intensify the development of nonnuclear weaponry and his public hectoring of the U.S. had apparently put him at odds with the ruling Politburo's aging members. But Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been making his power felt, and last week, according to some reports in Moscow, he rehabilitated Ogarkov. The general, it was said, had been appointed First Deputy Defense Minister and commander in chief of the Warsaw Pact forces. That would make Ogarkov the No. 3 man in the Soviet...