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...unexpected acceptance of London's invitation by Gorbachev recalled another Soviet foreign policy initiative staged on British soil. In 1956, during the cold war, Nikita Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin came calling, opening a campaign of personal diplomacy in the West that culminated in Khrushchev's 1959 tour of the U.S. That was also a period of progress in arms-control negotiations between the U.S. and Soviet Union, though no major agreement emerged until the limited test-ban treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Opening to London | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

Primitive farming techniques have raped the land of its natural fertility while under increasing presure to produce food for a booming population, traditional fallow periods have all but disappeared, wearing out the soil...

Author: By Dtane M. Cardwell, | Title: Keeping Hunger at Bay | 11/28/1984 | See Source »

Controversy over the dump began several years ago when testing during construction of the MBTA Alewife station revealed napthalene and soil so acidic it had to be removed for fear it would eat through the 18-inch thick concrete walls of the subway tunnel...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Residents Demand Testing of Chemical Dump | 11/27/1984 | See Source »

...local militia units as the Sandinista government announced a "state of alert" affecting the country's 100,000-member military and security forces. For the third time in two years, the Sandinistas were loudly convinced-or so they said-that U.S. troops were about to invade their soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Broadsides in a War of Nerves | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Though a member of the seven-nation Warsaw Pact, Rumania does not permit stationing of Soviet troops or nuclear weapons on its soil. Ceauşescu declared that the European countries "bear a special responsibility for peace in Europe." Kohl, however, refused to endorse the visitor's call for opening U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks to participation by other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Man Who Came to Bonn | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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