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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer seemed to be both yes and no. As Gorbachev and his elegant wife Raisa boarded a blue-and-white Aeroflot Il-62 jetliner for the return voyage to Moscow last Saturday, the Soviet leader could not claim any great victory on substance. On the public relations front, Gorbachev had also experienced some of the perils of the open, Western-style image making that he and his Kremlin advisers are striving to cultivate. Even so, he projected himself as an impressive, energetic figure whose pursuit of traditional Soviet goals is at least as dogged as that...
...censorship did not go unnoticed. TASS PURGES GOD jeered a headline in the Milan daily Il Giornale. But otherwise the reaction in Western Europe, a prime target of Gorbachev's comments, was both impressed and worried. A common opinion among political analysts there was that "the charm offensive of Gorbachev," as the Paris daily Le Matin called it, might succeed in putting Reagan on the defensive at their November meeting in Geneva. The Bonn daily General-Anzeiger noted the "knowledge of details" that Gorbachev had demonstrated in the interview and added delicately that Reagan "is not known for having...
...performance have also become top sellers. Japan's Cateye makes a $66 solar-powered magnetic device that tells a % biker the average speed and distance traveled. San Diego-based SkidLid Manufacturing produces a $52 helmet with a rear-view mirror. There are even accessories for babies: the $30 L'il Bell Shell helmet is designed for tots riding on the back of their parent's bike...
...short of a house. The Chinese pilot, Xiao Tianyan, 33, shouted for help; the navigator was dead. The radioman walked away with light bruises and asked to be sent home to China. Thus ended Navy Pilot Xiao's dramatic escape in his Chinese-built version of a Soviet Ilyushin Il-28. The pilot said he was dissatisfied with life in China because he had been passed over for promotion for not being a loyal party member. He was the fourth Chinese pilot to defect to South Korea in the past three years...
...children's future in terms of higher education. In part, this blind faith in academic achievement stems from the normal yearning of all immigrants to bootstrap their families into the comforts of middle-class American life. But it also bespeaks a deeper ethic permeating many Asian societies. Says Yong-Il Yi, 55, a New York City real estate broker from Seoul: "In Asia, if you don't have a higher education, you are a second-class citizen...