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...Raisa Gorbachev has accepted Mrs. Bush's invitation to accompany her to Wellesley" on June 1 during their husbands' summit meetings in Washington, the first lady's press office said. "Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Gorbachev will both deliver remarks to the graduating class...
Even the end of the cold war is, at best, Topic D. No wonder Gorbachev is keeping his summit trip to the U.S. later this month as brief as possible. His tough job is here, making peace with, and among, his countrymen. Soviet officials note gratefully that the Bush Administration has refrained from "exploiting the weaknesses" of the U.S.S.R. -- an unthinkable statement a few years ago and a revealing one today...
Bush acknowledged the changes that have swept across Europe over the past year by calling for a NATO summit in early summer to explore the "future political mission of the alliance." He also paid tribute to the 35-member Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe for seeking to sort out the complications created by eased East-West tensions. But Bush made clear that as far as the U.S. is concerned, NATO should be retrofitted, not demolished and replaced with a new security structure...
...willing to boost the organization's fortunes, provided it does not become a substitute for NATO. The CSCE hopes to convene a summit later this year, probably in Paris, to give final approval to the unification of Germany within borders accepted by all. But the U.S., which is a member, is stalling a summit until the Conventional Forces in Europe talks are concluded, and the CSCE meeting can serve as the forum for the signing of a treaty. "The CFE talks are the mechanism for the Soviet withdrawal of military forces from East Europe," says a senior Pentagon official. "There...
Lithuanians had been hoping for foreign intervention in their secession standoff with Moscow, but what they got last week was not what they had in mind. Winding up a summit in Paris, French President Francois Mitterrand and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl urged Vilnius to resolve its crisis with Moscow "through the classic channels of dialogue." To get talks going, they suggested in a letter to Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, "it would be helpful if the effects of the decisions taken by your Parliament were suspended...