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...thousands of Iranians have sacrificed their lives in the Iraqi-imposed war. It is true that billions of dollars have been spent for defense. And yes, it is true that there are many death wishes chanted by the masses: Death to America, to Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Israel, the Soviet Union and all other oppressive regimes. Do you believe that detesting such evils is a negative quality? These death chants hardly include "just about everything," as you suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Your article on the Daniloff-Zakharov negotiations [NATION, Sept. 22] discloses that 225 Soviet citizens work in the American embassy in Moscow. How many U.S. citizens are employed in the Soviet embassy in Washington? John Dranchek Liverpool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Soviet Union 's Washington embassy does not employ any U.S. citizens. It is Soviet policy to supply its embassies throughout the world with Soviet personnel, from chauffeurs to garbage handlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...make progress where their subordinates had come up short. There they were again, putting two very human faces on the most dangerous rivalry in history, personalizing the complex issues involved. It was their second meeting in less than a year, and it was intended to provide what the Soviet leader called an "impulse" for future meetings in Washington and Moscow. Though they clashed in Reykjavik over Star Wars, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan still might end up encountering each other more frequently than Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev did during the heyday of détente...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of All People | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...affable Great Communicator in the contest for the hearts and minds of the world. Because he was tough and might stay in office well into the next century, Gorbachev seemed the best choice to deal with all those doctrines and initiatives that the U.S. had launched to deprive the Soviet Union of what it sees as its rightful place as a superpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of All People | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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