Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to go far away from Fisher's Law School abode to find the copy of Getting to Yes he inscribed for Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...backed by six votes of the Security Council. A nationwide poll conducted for TIME/CNN last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman showed Bush with an overall approval rating of 71% and support for his handling of the gulf crisis even higher at 75%. His summit in Helsinki with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev bolstered his claim that the confrontation in the Persian Gulf is not the U.S. vs. Iraq but "Iraq against the world...
...wrong with perestroika. Twice in the past nine months he has tried to come up with an economic plan to save the floundering Soviet economy -- without success. As lines for basic staples, including bread, grow ever longer, confidence in his government has dipped so precipitously that even President Mikhail Gorbachev decided last month to join forces with longtime rival Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Russian Republic, in drafting an alternative plan. Thus when Ryzhkov stepped to the podium of the Supreme Soviet last week to present his latest plan to bail out the economy, parliamentary deputies, just back from...
...have closed the book on World War II and started a new age." The two men were describing the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, signed in Moscow last week by the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and the two Germanys. As Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev looked on, West German Foreign Minister Hans- Dietrich Genscher and East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere affixed their signatures, followed by the foreign ministers of the four Allied powers. Then the seven men marked the occasion by shaking hands and drinking a champagne toast...
MOSCOW--A compromise plan to create a market economy in the Soviet Union began to break down Monday as President Mikhail S. Gorbachev hesitated on a key issue: the decollectivization of farming...