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...Belgrade, the capital, he repeatedly waded into excited crowds with Wife Raisa to shake hands and shout good wishes amid cries of "Mikhail! Mikhail!" In the northern city of Ljubljana, he toured a high-tech electronics plant that has a product line including robots used by U.S. automobile manufacturers. In the Adriatic resort of Dubrovnik, he strolled the Stradun, the city's marble-paved pedestrian thoroughfare, and was again greeted by cheering spectators...
...fans in other countries had cause to rejoice in some non-prime- time, though historic, performances. East German Frank-Peter Roetsch was the first ever to capture both the 10-km and 20-km biathlons, a daunting standard for future ski shooters. Even more notably, Soviet Cross-Country Skier Raisa Smetanina tied for the most decorated competitor in the history of the Winter Games as she took a bronze in the 20 km, the record ninth medal of her four- Olympiad career. Even Britons, whose team failed to win a single medal, could take pride in a new national achievement...
That exchange has never been reported in the Soviet Union, nor was Gorbachev's confirmation to Tom Brokaw last month that he discussed "Soviet affairs at the highest level" with Raisa. If it were known that Raisa had once contradicted her husband before a foreign leader -- well, that could only add to the whispered accusations that Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev, 55, is guilty of conduct unbecoming a Soviet wife. In a land where women have full equality under the law but where a husband has the last word, Raisa has become a widely respected but occasionally resented figure. To a Westerner...
...Raisa is rarely mentioned by name in the Soviet press. She was born in the Siberian town of Rubtsovsk in Altai Krai, though she told reporters at a parade in Moscow last month that she is "absolutely Russian." According to her official biography, her father was a railway engineer. Raisa's chosen profession is teaching. When the newly married Gorbachevs moved to Stavropol in 1955, Raisa found a job at a local school and continued to teach for the next 23 years. When her husband was summoned back to Moscow in 1978 to take charge of Soviet agriculture, Raisa became...
...TIME's Man of the Year. But who is he? What $forces have shaped his mind, his methods? How $did he rise from Privolnoye to power? TIME $presents a candid biography of the year' s most $remarkable figure. -- For a Soviet wife, she is $uncommonly outspoken, glamorous and $controversial. Raisa is also her husband' s secret $weapon. -- A White House scandal unfolds, a $contrary war continues, a boom goes bust, and a $plague rages on. It was a year that Ronald $Reagan would just as soon forget...