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...promised to make tough points and ask even tougher questions. For their part, his Soviet hosts had made it clear that they held him accountable for "frictions" in Franco-Soviet relations. Thus it came as no surprise last week that French Premier Jacques Chirac's visit to Moscow got off to a sharply contentious start...
...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...
...play down the visit, largely because of France's expulsion last month of six Soviet officials on charges of spying on the Ariane rocket program. The Soviets retaliated in kind. Nonetheless, Chirac had an unscheduled encounter with Physicist Andrei Sakharov and a long meeting with Gorbachev that left the Premier enthusiastic about the General Secretary's reforms. On arms-control issues, however, Chirac retained his skepticism about Moscow's double-zero proposal to eliminate medium- and shorter-range nuclear weapons in Europe...
...words "World Socialism Rules" on my gas tank and borrowed the diplomatic plates I found on a sedan at the East German border. Now all I had to worry about was not getting pulled over, since my driver's licence had been revoked for trying to run down the premier of Rumania...
THERE IS GOOD REASON TO BE PROUD if you're a Lemonhead these days. With their debut LP Hate Your Friends, four young Boston lads who call themselves the Lemonheads emerge as one of the Hub's premier bands, able to sound both familiar and fresh...