Word: raisa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case, the summit will give Americans a close-up look at the Soviet leader: in addition to meeting with Reagan five times in the Oval Office, he is scheduled to confer with congressional leaders and intellectuals and hold a televised news conference before he and his wife Raisa depart next Thursday. Gorbachev's image in the West as a humane reformer has been somewhat dimmed by the November sacking of one of his chief lieutenants, Moscow Communist Party Boss Boris Yeltsin, after a public disgrace reminiscent of the Stalin era. Since Yeltsin was an enthusiast for perestroika (restructuring...
...White House they think Reagan might ease such tension by pointing out that when Moscow Party Chief Boris Yeltsin included Gorbachev's wife Raisa in his criticism, he was sacked. After White House Chief of Staff Don Regan hung up on Nancy Reagan, he too got the ax. In unison there is hope: a toast to the ladies...
Gorbachev, I didn't forget you, my Byelorussian buddy. I hear that you may plan to visit fair Harvard. If so, please lay a poppy on my mouldering grave. And let's get one thing straight for the record: that thing with Raisa was just a lark. I didn't mean anything...
...take my being here as a complete miracle," said Tenghiz Gudava through a translator. Gudava, a musician, arrived in Boston from the Soviet Union three weeks ago with his mother Raisa, his brother Edward, Edward's wife Marina and their son Zurab...
...Foreign Ministry quickly denied any illness, explaining that Gorbachev was simply away on vacation. He is scheduled to resume work in Moscow early this week. Late last week the Swedish daily Expressen, citing a Soviet doctor as its source, reported that Gorbachev had prolonged his vacation because his wife Raisa, 55, was suffering from complications following an appendectomy...