Word: leaders
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Which comes in pretty handy if you're a first-term president following in the steps of the most popular leader in decades and you're widely perceived as being ineffective and overcautious...
What was Gorbylove in West Germany was more a case of Gorbylike in France. Ever the skeptics, Parisians welcomed the Soviet leader for the second time in four years but failed to shower him with the kind of ecstatic hero worship he received a month ago in Bonn. During a curiously muted three-day visit, French commentators noted, Mikhail Gorbachev disappointed "a lot of people who were just waiting to become admirers...
...least the Soviet leader recruited President Francois Mitterrand as an advocate of perestroika. "It is the duty of the democracies," said Mitterrand, to help Soviet reforms succeed...
Sitting side by side last week as Poland's Senate reconvened for the first time since it was abolished in 1946 were Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and Communist chief General Wojciech Jaruzelski. If their propinquity reflects the vast changes overtaking the country, so does the scheduled arrival of George Bush this week, paying the first U.S. presidential call in Warsaw in twelve years...
...Tuesday, the Senate passed 97-0 an amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act, sponsored by Mitchell and Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kansas), which would waive the two-year residency requirement and allow students to remain as legal nonimmigrants in the U.S. until June, 1992. A similar measure, sponsored by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is currently before the House...