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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unexpected acceptance of London's invitation by Gorbachev recalled another Soviet foreign policy initiative staged on British soil. In 1956, during the cold war, Nikita Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin came calling, opening a campaign of personal diplomacy in the West that culminated in Khrushchev's 1959 tour of the U.S. That was also a period of progress in arms-control negotiations between the U.S. and Soviet Union, though no major agreement emerged until the limited test-ban treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Opening to London | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...uncertain leadership of the aging and ailing Politburo. They seem capable of responding only tentatively to overtures from the U.S. Shultz, for example, has made no secret of his desire to visit Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders early next year. At Indira Gandhi's funeral, when Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov expressed standard diplomatic hopes that he would one day see Shultz in the Soviet capital, the Secretary of State pointedly replied, "Is that an invitation?" Tikhonov was noncommittal, but Shultz still expects to make the trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Set for More of the Same | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...million in bad loans. The new disclosure was an added loss of face for First Chicago's management. Said William Handel, director of financial-industry research at the consulting firm of Whittle & Hanks: "This is definitely going to hurt its reputation as Chicago's premier bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taken to Task | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...good meeting" was how a cautious State Department official described the talk between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov in New Delhi. In the first high-level meeting between the two nations since President Reagan's White House get-together with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Septem ber, the two men conferred for 20 minutes at the Soviet embassy, following Indira Gandhi's funeral. Afterward, Shultz said he had relayed U.S. wishes for a "constructive relationship," while Soviet TV reported that Tikhonov had made a plea for "peaceful co-existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomatic Word Games | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...fanned out across Eastern Europe during the past four months. President Li Xiannian traveled to Rumania and Yugoslavia. China's Minister of Foreign Trade, Chen Muhua, made well-publicized visits to Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria. The good feelings have been reciprocated. Last August, Hungarian Deputy Premier József Marjai became the highest-ranking East European official to visit China in nearly two decades. Peking has also played host to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: When East Meets East | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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