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Obviously, both the Stark and Vincennes tragedies highlight the dangers and high risks that inevitably accompany U.S. policy in the region...
...Bolshoi highlight was a carefully hewed speech by Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the brilliant diplomat who years ago fashioned the Vatican outreach to the Communist world and is now the Secretary of State (prime minister) of Pope John Paul's Vatican. Religion, Casaroli asserted, is an "uncontestable reality" in daily life and "cannot be neglected" by authorities. Some of the Bolshoi festivities were carried to a nationwide TV audience, a fact that impressed one visiting churchman: "What do you think it says to millions of faithful in the Soviet Union? It means the government thinks religion is not 'the opium...
...that few Soviet women can imagine. She provides less a role model than a yardstick against which Soviet women measure their lives. "We envy her," says Rimma Raude, 37, an economist who emigrated from Kharkov to the U.S. a year ago. Mrs. Gorbachev's life-style serves both to highlight and deepen women's dissatisfaction, even as the rising expectations spawned by glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) have emboldened some women to speak out about their problems...
Since no START agreement is in sight, the highlight of the Moscow meeting will probably be a replay of last December's summit in Washington: the signing of the final draft of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to abolish medium-and short-range nuclear missiles. Only a few weeks ago, hopes were fading that a skeptical U.S. Senate would ratify the treaty in time for the summit. But prospects brightened when Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze were able to work out last-minute questions about verification...
...inside story of the past five years, much of it never before told, contains revelations that highlight the significance, and in some ways the . irony, of next week's encounter in Moscow. For example...