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...Moscow Conservatory's yellow-and-white Great Hall was packed with notables, ranging from Raisa Gorbachev to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, when Rostropovich came striding out on stage, threw kisses in all directions and then raised his arms to begin. He had chosen a program full of sad messages: first Samuel Barber's elegiac Adagio for Strings; then Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, which Rostropovich had performed at his last Moscow concert 16 years ago; then Shostakovich's anguished Fifth Symphony, written at the height of Stalin's purges in 1937. (In three subsequent concerts, two of them in Leningrad, Rostropovich would also...
Selecting a spot to pose for the picture you see here, John decided on the entrance to the liberal Moscow News. On the sidewalk he encountered a huckster selling an unofficial broadsheet printed in Minsk. The lead article was titled "Raisa Gorbachev: Who Is She? Translation from TIME Magazine." Says Kohan: "He was doing a brisk business at one ruble per copy." Now that's glasnost...
Officials said they did not know if first ladies Barbara Bush and Raisa Gorbachev would accompany their husbands...
Everywhere he went, Gorbachev and his wife Raisa were besieged by cheering and excited crowds chanting, "Gorbi! Gorbi! Gorbi!" Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who faces a tough campaign for re-election in 1990, made seven appearances with his visitor, hoping, perhaps, to absorb some of the generous warmth. Gorbachev's popularity rating among West German voters is considerably higher than Kohl's; a poll taken for the weekly Der Spiegel in early June gave Gorbachev a score of +2.2 on a scale of +5 to -5, compared with -0.6 for Kohl...
...useless. Gorbachev did not "arrive by car" at Tiananmen Square nor, accompanied by two soldiers of the Chinese honor guard, did "the distinguished guest" lay a wreath at the Monument to the People's Heroes. And what about that passage on proper behavior at the Beijing Opera? Mikhail and Raisa never enjoyed a night...