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...Kremlin banquet, Chirac congratulated his host, Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, and an unexpected guest, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, on their new policies toward political prisoners and Soviet Jews, but added, "You cannot ignore that from our point of view there is a long way to go." Like British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her visit to Moscow six weeks earlier, Chirac applauded U.S.-Soviet arms-control negotiations but then defended nuclear deterrence as Europe's peacekeeper over the past 40 years. Ryzhkov replied with a detailed discussion of Soviet arms-reduction aims and complained about France's nuclear policy. "Unfortunately...
...arms-control deal that Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev are expected to sign at a summit later this year was sharply criticized by Richard Nixon in an interview two weeks ago in TIME and in a syndicated article he co-authored with Henry Kissinger. The Secretary of State offered this reply for TIME...
Whatever the motives behind Mikhail Gorbachev's current peace offensive, why not accept these initiatives as honest gestures? The Soviets have had 40 years of relative peace and prosperity. Their war mentality is getting soft around the edges. I believe Gorbachev displays courage. The voices emanating from both superpowers suddenly seem less bellicose and more conciliatory. That is good news...
...imprisoned for unrelated dissident activities, Koryagin boarded a jet last week and flew to Switzerland. The physician, who was released from detention only last February, said on reaching Zurich that he agreed to leave his homeland because he feared being subjected to more "Bolshevik terror." What about Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost? Said Koryagin: "Practically nothing has changed. We were still seen as political criminals. The 'opening up' is only words...
...endorsement and support for their activities, live on Soros Foundation grants. In addition, Soros is now bankrolling a dozen Hungarian high school graduates each year to study at Oxford. Earlier this month Soros flew to Moscow to see whether a "Glasnost" foundation could be established to test how serious Mikhail Gorbachev is about his new "openness" policy...