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...What are you afraid of?" asked Mikhail Gorbachev. Doubtless the Soviet leader knew perfectly well why his visitor, Secretary of State George Shultz, could not immediately reply to his newest arms-control bombshell: having unnerved NATO allies when Ronald Reagan traded blue-sky proposals with Gorbachev at the Reykjavik summit, the U.S. was determined this time to answer the Soviets only after fully consulting with the West Europeans. But Gorbachev and his subordinates could not resist taunting Shultz for seeming diffident about an offer that, on its face, not only met but topped American terms for a pact to take...
...zero option has had a bizarre, irony-ridden career. Born as a slogan of the European left in the late 1970s, kidnaped and turned to their purposes by Reaganaut hard-liners in 1981, now adopted and turned to his own use by Mikhail Gorbachev, it may come to maturity at a summit later this year as the first arms-control agreement in nearly a decade -- but also as the object of intense opposition...
...book obviously has high-level support. No apparatchik would have dared authorize it without powerful political backing. Rybakov does not know if Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has seen it or cleared it. "The reason it is being permitted now must be that those on high must have felt it was timely and needed," says Rybakov. "They must have realized that until we have eliminated the consequences of Stalinism in the psychology of our people we cannot move further forward. If we say we wish to live honestly and truthfully, then we must be truthful about the past. We cannot bring...
Despite those notes of caution, one Soviet official said he believed that at last week's visit to Moscow by Secretary of State George Shultz, groundwork was laid for a summit meeting this year between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...cried one woman. "We're all his supporters. I was so close, I could look at him eye to eye." Swooned another: "My heart was thumping!" The object of their affection, though, was not the U2 band or Television Star Harry Hamlin. It was none other than Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was making his first official visit to Czechoslovakia...