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...Kremlin's welcome mat came out after President Reagan's summit conference with Gorbachev in Washington last December. Besides reaching agreement on arms control, the two leaders promised to improve the business relationship between their countries. Earlier this month Commerce Secretary William Verity led a delegation of Administration officials to Moscow, where U.S. and Soviet leaders signed an agreement to explore mutual opportunities in such industries as food processing and construction equipment...
...talk about prospective joint ventures. In a display of Madison Avenue glitz, council members from the U.S. gave their Soviet counterparts a crash course in marketing that included razzle-dazzle TV commercials for Diet Coke, NutraSweet and the American Express Card. Gorbachev invited the U.S. visitors to the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses for a seven-course feast of caviar, pheasant, grouse and other delicacies. After exchanging toasts with the capitalists, the Soviet leader described perestroika as an "invitation" to a business partnership with the West. Said he: "New thinking should, at long last, enter the sphere of economic relations...
...signs of a struggle within the Kremlin seemed unmistakable. For more than six months, thinly veiled attacks on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies had been growing bolder. No one outside the ruling Politburo, however, could know for certain the strength of the General Secretary's opponents in what Moscow insiders called the battle for perestroika -- Gorbachev's term for the radical economic restructuring he is trying to carry out. Was Gorbachev's authority being seriously challenged? Or did the criticism exchanged in coded speeches and press articles amount to no more than a difference in emphasis between officials pursuing...
...press and television. Those powers were reportedly shifted to one of the Soviet leader's strongest backers in the Politburo, Alexander Yakovlev, 64. However, the Soviet leadership showed no sign of strain at the end of last week when Ligachev appeared with Gorbachev and other Politburo members in the Kremlin Palace for the traditional ceremony marking Lenin's birth date. A smiling Ligachev took his usual seat at Gorbachev's right, and the two chatted amicably...
...rebels have rejected the peace pact and have vowed to continue fighting. Under a compromise with Moscow, the United States will continue sending weapons to the rebels, while the Kremlin continues providing arms to the Marxist government...