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...Mikhail Gorbachev has been running the Soviet Union for eight months, and his photograph has long since become a fixture on the front pages of U.S. newspapers. Ronald Reagan has been President of the U.S. for 58 months, and his photograph had never made the front page of any Soviet newspaper--until last week...
...letter was the covering note attached to a Pentagon study that Reagan had requested on alleged Soviet violations of past arms agreements. In a somewhat patronizing tone, Weinberger cautioned his Commander in Chief against making any concessions to Mikhail Gorbachev that would "limit severely your options for responding." U.S. commitment to strict compliance with the antiballistic missile treaty of 1972, warned Weinberger, could eventually hamper progress on the President's vaunted Strategic Defense Initiative. That militant position was hardly a new one for Weinberger, but the timing of his latest warning gave the Soviets an opening to charge that...
...happening in human rights. Most women . . . would rather read the human-interest stuff of what happened." The remarks predictably infuriated feminists and provided news-starved journalists with a few stories. When reporters asked Nancy Reagan if women understood substantive issues, she coolly replied, "I'm sure they do." Even Mikhail Gorbachev leaped in with a politic comment: "Men and women . . . all over the world are interested in having peace and being sure that peace would be kept stable and lasting." In an ironic twist, the President found himself trying to explain away a gaffe by his top aide. Regan...
...Editors: Whatever a person's political bent, I like to think there is an intangible value in two human beings' looking into each other's eyes, as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev have done [NATION, Nov. 18]. Our political systems may differ, but the hopes and fears of the Soviet and American people do not. Richard L. Swenson Tacoma...
China's wise leader Deng Xiaoping made a good impression on European readers like me. Mikhail Gorbachev should take lessons from Deng and also foster a market economy. It would help bring prosperity and a higher standard of living to the Soviet people. Western politicians should intensify their relations with this newly developing China. Carsten Jaeger Wiesbaden, West Germany Spy's Smile...