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Molotov, 96, served as Foreign Minister during and after Stalin's regime but was ousted from power by Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. Molotov was interviewed by Moscow News, a weekly paper. The article skirted political issues, merely presenting a personality profile on the friendly great grandfather. The paper, however, said Molotov approved of the loosening of limitations on editorial freedom that has accompanied Gorbachev's recent "openness" campaign...
...Soviet appeal for "practical results," Dobrynin recalled his own extensive experience in summitry. The meeting of Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev in the U.S. in 1959, as well as the subsequent summit talks between Khrushchev and John Kennedy in Vienna, were "disastrous," said Dobrynin, because both sessions had been inadequately prepared. By contrast, he continued, the summit meetings during the '70s, involving Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, had been essentially successful because they were well planned and the outcomes known in advance. Thus, according to a senior U.S. official, considerable time last week "was spent on making sure...
...years Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin ambled through the streets of Washington like a Russian bear who resembled your Uncle Ralph. There has never been anything quite like him in capital diplomacy. He survived Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev. Sighs Soviet Expert William Hyland: "That's a major achievement in itself...
Gorbachev aggressively reminded Washington that he can be a tough customer. He scoffed at a counterproposal by President Reagan for eliminating medium- range nuclear missiles by 1990 and, along the way, displayed a penchant for bareknuckle bullying reminiscent of Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, the General Secretary showed little inclination to tone down his anti-U.S. rhetoric. Quoting Karl Marx, he described capitalism as a "hideous pagan idol, who would not drink nectar but from the skulls of the slain." The U.S., he declared, is "the metropolitan center of imperialism." In part such pronouncements were intended to appease the party...
...much of the corruption and inefficiency that has seeped into Soviet life. Public resentment has been building over the cronyism that Brezhnev fostered. Gorbachev's attacks on the mistakes of a past Soviet leader will bring back memories of the 20th party congress on Feb. 25, 1956, when Khrushchev presented a four-hour report that cataloged Joseph Stalin's use of mass deportation, imprisonment, torture and execution to eliminate real and suspected opponents...