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...Iraq. The arrival last Saturday of yet another U.N. inspection team in Baghdad gives Saddam additional breathing space. But the truth is that the current appetite for renewed warfare is slight. Bush does not want to seem trigger-happy when he arrives in Moscow this week for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Arab allies, whose cooperation is crucial to any Middle East peace conference, have signaled their distaste for new bombardments. "Most of our people think the Iraqis have suffered enough already," says a senior Egyptian diplomat...
...been right to do so. Now there is a real opportunity to get to those face-to-face negotiations." He said he had not given Shamir a deadline for his response but hoped to get an answer before this week's U.S.-Soviet summit in Moscow. Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev were thinking of issuing invitations from the summit to an October peace conference...
...eyebrows were raised by an unusual private meeting MIKHAIL GORBACHEV scheduled during the London economic summit. The Soviet leader took time out from importuning Western leaders for economic help to greet his friend SRI CHINMOY, the New Age Indian guru. As French President Francois Mitterrand watched from the side, Gorbachev accepted a book of praise from the spiritual leader, who is based in Queens, N.Y. Gorbachev, who has been known to sprinkle speeches with terminology about his vision for a "new civilization" that obeys "new laws and logic," first met the guru last year on a state visit to Canada...
...week some of the country's most prominent advocates of change put together a Democratic Reform Movement, intended to become a unified and permanent opposition to the Communist Party, or at least its hard-line faction. Organizers include former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze; Alexander Yakovlev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev who is sometimes called the "architect of perestroika"; and Mayors Gavril Popov of Moscow and Anatoli Sobchak of Leningrad...
Will the last reformer left in the Soviet Communist Party be the man officially running it? Many of Mikhail Gorbachev's onetime allies have already turned in their party cards, and formation last week of the Democratic Reform Movement may turn the stream into a flood. Democratic-minded Communists who join don't have to quit the party, but many probably will. Others will be given no choice; the party might well have expelled Reform Movement founder Eduard Shevardnadze had he not resigned. The exodus has strengthened the hard- liners who openly aim to kick out General Secretary Gorbachev himself...