Word: stavropol
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...Moscow and Leningrad in the course of preparing for the assignment. Correspondent David Aikman traveled to points as diverse as Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, tracking down men and women who have known Gorbachev personally. Correspondent John Kohan embarked on a similar search in the Soviet Union, visiting Stavropol, where Gorbachev began his political career. The result is a rare glimpse into the private life of an ostensibly public man. Since 1927, when Aviator Charles Lindbergh became TIME's first Man of the Year, that honor has by definition gone to the person who has most influenced the year...
...come from? How did he acquire his personality, his ideas, his power? In an unprecedented journalistic inquiry, TIME correspondents in the Soviet Union and beyond interviewed dozens of Gorbachev's colleagues, onetime schoolmates, the handful of foreigners he has known, and others who have encountered the former Stavropol farm boy on his ( rise to prominence. The magazine has also assembled the largest collection of official and family photographs of Gorbachev ever published. The result is a rare glimpse into the life and character of the year's most remarkable figure...
...game being played to a draw this week began about ten years ago, when Ronald Reagan was a radio commentator and Gorbachev was Communist Party boss for the Stavropol region. That was when the strategic rocket forces started deploying the SS-20s. But that same year, Soviet civilian leaders began to have doubts about whether more and more nuclear weapons like the SS-20 necessarily meant more security and power for the U.S.S.R. The Kremlin initiated a gradual shift in emphasis away from nuclear weaponry to conventional weaponry as instruments of Soviet influence and intimidation, particularly in Europe. In January...
From 1954 to 1958, their professional paths crossed in the Soviet city of Stavropol, where Neznansky was a prosecutor and Gorbachev served as an area supervisor for the Communist party...
...foreign policy, too, Gorbachev has been sending out mixed signals. He knows the world outside the U.S.S.R. better than nearly any of his predecessors did on coming to power. Even in his Stavropol days Gorbachev made official trips to Italy, West Germany, Belgium and France, a rare honor for a young provincial Soviet administrator. As a Politburo member, he led Soviet delegations to Canada in 1983 and Britain in 1984 and submitted to sometimes hostile questioning by members of the Parliaments of both countries. Gorbachev on those occasions showed flashes of a quick temper. When a British Tory asked...