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Daniel Ortega Saavedra had one of the busiest weeks of his life last week. He spent the first few days in Moscow, attending the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Then, as Ortega was flying home, his wife Rosario Murillo gave birth to the couple's seventh child and first daughter. On Thursday night Ortega delivered what he described as the most difficult speech of his career, a 50-minute oration in which he offered to negotiate a cease-fire with the contras. The next day Ortega...
Harvard is discussing with Soviet officials a possible stopover in Cambridge by Mikhail S. Gorbachev during his summit visit to the United States next month, University officials said today...
...speech comes a week after Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Stalin...
Sharansky, the former Soviet refusenik who was released from his nine-year prison sentence three years ago, said that most Americans laud Mikhail Gorbachev for allowing the emigration of several well-known, prominent dissidents, but few realize that his regime has barred the bulk of other Jews from emigrating...
Does this sudden emigration surge mean that Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev intends to pay more heed to one of the human rights that the Soviet Union has long violated? Or is it merely a temporary opening of the door, mostly to troublesome refuseniks? Says Mathematician Iosif Begun, who was recently given an exit visa after a 16-year wait: "This is a hopeful time for Soviet Jews, but sometimes I'm afraid this hope has no basis...