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After a week of dramatic developments in East European countries, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said in Moscow...
...Soviets who are complaining have a clear political bias. Virtually all of their targets are thought to be enemies of Mikhail Gorbachev's program of restructuring society, while the accusers are mostly progressives. If Gorbachev wants to remove accused officials from their posts, the growing scandal could make it easy...
...world, is in serious trouble at home, threatened with civil war in the south of his country, a secessionist movement in the north and a collapsing economy that heralds a winter of fuel shortages and food riots. For all these differences -- and because of them -- George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev both stand to gain from a feet-up-on-the-table, let's-get-to-know-each-other chat. In a head-snapping acceleration of their relationship, the two leaders announced last week that they would visit each other aboard ships moored in the Mediterranean...
...details of the discussion, however, will prove to be far less significant than the long-anticipated encounter between the two leaders. The eleven months that George Bush has required before he would come face-to-face with Mikhail Gorbachev is more time than it took for Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev to meet and overcome their mutual suspicion. The 1985 Geneva summit between Gorbachev and Reagan proved that a get-together need not end with formal agreements to produce important results. In their staterooms off Malta, the U.S. and Soviet Presidents may finally launch a partnership to deal with the difficult...
...visit by the Polish-born former U.S. National Security Adviser was timely. Two years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev established a joint Soviet-Polish commission whose mandate included the reopening of the Katyn case. Since then, the Soviets have delayed a formal verdict. But officials, eager to clear the air before Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's arrival in Moscow later this month, want to hasten a judgment. Applauding Gorbachev for making a "historic break with Stalinism," Brzezinski offered a face-saving way out. "Many Soviet people were also victims of Stalinism," he said. "So the acknowledgment of these crimes should lead...