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...official said he could not predict whether a date for a visit by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would be set then. But, the official said, "a scenario for a summit is developing...
Meanwhile, President Reagan said yesterday that U.S.-Soviet affairs are "a little up in the air" following Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's refusal to pick a date for a summit, but added he still believes a treaty to ban medium-range nuclear weapons is "going to be signed...
Over the years TIME has made special efforts to bring you the world's best coverage of the other superpower, from the cover story on 1939 Man of the Year Joseph Stalin to last July's cover on the domestic and foreign policy reforms of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Our list of firsts is, as the Soviets would say, heroic. In 1970 Time Inc. published exclusive excerpts from the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, edited and translated by Strobe Talbott, who is now this magazine's Washington bureau chief. In 1979 TIME published a rare private interview with then Soviet Leader...
Patterned after Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika (restructuring), the reforms call for laying off more than 3,000 government employees, granting greater freedom to state-owned companies and allowing prices to jump by slashing subsidies. Gaining voter approval for the program could prove difficult. In an official survey, almost a third of those questioned said efforts to improve the economy would further reduce living standards, which are already below 1975 levels...
GISELLE is one of those ballets imbued with the power to melt audiences. Mikhail Baryshnikov has been known to do the same. One would think that a cinematic synthesis of the two could offer an hour and a half of entertainment...