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When this is considered along with the next panel's photo--a meticulously maintained post-office and beneath it a wall streaked by angry acronyms and a hammer and sickle--one can't help but get a sense of that nation's social landscape...
...months the speculation had been building, fed in part by Soviet officials themselves, that the United Nations 40th anniversary session in New York this September would provide the backdrop for an informal meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But last week Armand Hammer, 87, chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Corp.. revealed in Moscow that he had been told by Anatoli Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador in Washington, that Gorbachev would not attend the U.N. session. The decision was later confirmed by a U.S. official in Moscow...
...Hammer, whose numerous visits to Kremlin leaders began when he met with Lenin in 1921, also discussed a possible Reagan-Gorbachev summit during a 90- minute talk with the Soviet leader last week. Hammer said Gorbachev assured him that "there will be a meeting, just where and when has not been determined." But Gorbachev stressed that "to have a meeting we must meet about something -- something must be accomplished." Hammer said he had no doubt the two leaders would accomplish something when they finally did meet. "I think they'll like each other and be frank with each other...
...cover story about fears of nuclear war. The impact was enhanced by a large facing photograph of a mushroom cloud. "It is often helpful to get a play between two things," says Holmes. "When TIME did a September 1983 cover on the downed Korean airliner, we used the Communist hammer-and-sickle symbol, with the plane as the hammer being cut by the sickle. It was both accusatory and effective...
...nationwide television address Tuesday night, Reagan will grandly present tax reform as the final battle of what he calls "the Second American Revolution," his crusade to whittle down Big Government and spur opportunities for growth. He will hammer his message all week long at a series of photogenic forums, including a ceremony honoring the drafters of the Declaration of Independence, in Williamsburg...