Word: raisa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan, and he did; as they viewed the Statue of Liberty, the visiting Communist played the self-confident superstar while Reagan ambled about like an amiable sidekick and Bush lapsed into the prenomination gawkiness that used to plague him whenever he stumbled across Reagan's shadow. Afterward, Mikhail and Raisa's foray into Manhattan provoked more excitement than any other visit since Pope John Paul II's in 1979. Even the devastating Armenian earthquake that forced Gorbachev to rush home early, and the sudden resignation of his Chief of the General Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, added dramatic punctuations...
When Gorbachev's speech ended, Secretary of State George Shultz, who had not twitched his Buddha-like face throughout, walked over to Raisa for a chat. "A very good and important speech," he said. As Shultz knows as well as anyone, that will depend on whether Soviet realities come to match Gorbachev's rhetoric. If they do, the ramifications are enormous. Should Gorbachev succeed in reducing the expansionist threat that Moscow poses to the West, loosening its domination over Eastern Europe and changing its repressive relationship with its citizens, then indeed the fundamental reasons for the great global struggle between...
Gorbachev and his wife Raisa were shown consoling survivors and speaking with rescuers in Spitak, a city of 16,000 that was virtually destroyed by the quake, and in Kirovakan 10 miles east...
...more picture, one more tribute, one more podium kiss, one more word by a politician about family, and I'm defecting. Probably to Russia, where until Gorbachev came along and ruined everything (with glasnost and Raisa), the leader reigned in splendid, family-free isolation. We didn't even know that Yuri Andropov had a wife until he was dead...
Accompanied by Wife Raisa, Gorbachev boarded his Tu-154 jet for two carefully chosen side trips. The first was to Cracow, a seat of Polish kings beginning in the 10th century and symbol of the country's fiercely independent national identity. There Gorbachev offered a tacit gesture to the enduring power of the Roman Catholic Church, to which more than 90% of Poles belong. He and Raisa paid a 15-minute visit to the Church of St. Mary, touring its celebrated Gothic interior as guests of Auxiliary Bishop Jan Szkoden. The visit, said Bishop Szkoden, "seems to show...