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Which Raisa will appear at the summit, the vivacious woman who chats up Western reporters abroad or the more modest one who stays in the background on her husband's tours of Soviet factories and collective farms? At a time when Gorbachev's reform efforts are still facing opposition from hard-liners, obstructionist bureaucrats and skeptical workers, the General Secretary is likely to tread softly. But he has not given up on pushing his wife forward, perhaps to demonstrate in the most personal terms that he is intent on improving the lot of women. Since 1987, for example...
Among TIME's 31 million readers worldwide is an influential, highly educated professional woman who would be a valuable addition to any magazine's demographic profile: Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev, the focus of this week's cover stories on Soviet women. During the Washington summit last December, Mrs. Gorbachev spotted TIME Correspondent Nancy Traver, who spent 3 1/2 years as a journalist in Moscow and who speaks Russian, at a meeting in the Soviet embassy that was closed to the press. Mrs. Gorbachev took her hand, pulled her alongside and said there was nothing wrong with having an American reporter...
...virtually no household help from her husband. She nurtures only limited hope that the situation will change anytime soon. "I have a great admiration for the women of the Soviet Union," President Reagan told Soviet reporters on the eve of his trip to Moscow for this week's superpower summit. "I just wonder if they're getting the credit within your country that I think they deserve...
...mournful mien than Secretary of State George Shultz? Last week, as President Reagan headed off to Moscow, his dispirited Secretary of State announced the collapse of U.S. efforts to force the resignation of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panama's pugnacious strongman. Shultz had delayed his own departure for the summit, believing that Noriega was about to yield. Instead, at the eleventh hour the general rejected the U.S. terms, which included a controversial offer to drop federal drug- running charges against him. With that, Shultz broke off talks and denounced Noriega as a "burden on the people of Panama." The Reagan...
...early May, Abrams dispatched his deputy Michael Kozak to Panama for what amounted to a series of plea-bargaining negotiations. The U.S.'s final offer, approved by Reagan the Sunday before he left for the Moscow summit: if Noriega would leave Panama shortly after Aug. 12, the fifth anniversary of his taking office, he could return for the Christmas holidays and permanently after his country's 1989 presidential elections. Another sweetener was an offer of $90 million in American aid. Although Noriega was to ditch new President Manuel Solis Palma after the formation of a "national reconciliation" government, another henchman...