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Thatcher drew large crowds during her sightseeing expeditions, including visits to an apartment complex in suburban Krylatskoye and a well-stocked supermarket, where the PM purchased a can of herring-like fish fillets called pilchards. The Prime Minister also met with Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the dissident leader who was allowed to return to Moscow four months ago from a seven-year exile in Gorky. Sakharov emphasized the importance of Gorbachev's social reforms to the prospects for world peace. Said he: "A more democratic, more open country is safer for the world as a whole...
...Sakharov voices deep skepticism about Ronald Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative. Yet he does not favor the Soviet negotiating position that makes an arms-agreement "package" dependent on what amounts to U.S. abandonment of sdi. Mikhail Gorbachev's latest proposal of a separate agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces appears to approach this position...
...conclusion of Sakharov's statement may surprise those who saw Chernobyl as a crippling if not fatal blow to the future of nuclear power. He argues strongly for the further peaceful development of nuclear energy, but suggests that reactors be buried underground to prevent any repetition of last year's Soviet nuclear disaster...
...participation in the forum was reported in the Soviet press but not the main points of my remarks. This is what Pravda wrote: "Academician A.D. Sakharov noted the unsoundness of the position of SDI proponents. He also termed as incorrect the idea that the existence of the SDI program would spur the U.S.S.R. to disarmament talks. The SDI program impedes negotiations. The scientist also proposed his own version of how to achieve a 50% cut in nuclear weapons." Western radio stations have also reported my views imprecisely and incompletely. This reinforced my decision to publish the complete text...
Though the prospect disturbs some officials, Gorbachev and Reagan seem determined to make a disarmament deal. -- A TIME exclusive: Dissident Andrei Sakharov' s speeches at a Moscow peace forum. -- An American spying for Israel is sentenced to life in prison. -- Student radicals form the center of opposition to President Chun in South Korea...