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...arranging a follow-up to the Geneva summit that is supposed to be held in the U.S. this year, and is seizing on various methods to signal displeasure. If so, Moscow seemed equally displeased: the Soviet news agency TASS called the U.N. restriction an attempt to prevent any thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations...
There is one sign of a thaw. Last month Jewish leaders were notified that Eliyahu Essas, the leader of the Jewish religion and culture movement in the Soviet Union, would be allowed to leave the country. Essas, 42, a mathematician, has been waiting for an exit visa for twelve years. Some Jewish leaders are optimistic about an airlift. Says one source close to the negotiations: "The Soviets haven't said when or how many, but they've indicated they'll do it." For Soviet Jews, this could be the first crack in what might be an opening door...
...ever hope to impress upon the contemplative VES student the beauty of a proper marriage of form and function when her dining hall toaster, with the facade of an oxyactylene welder, can not even thaw her single Eggo waffle...
...there have been small but significant signs of change. Last year the Czechoslovak weekly newspaper Tribuna called John Paul "one of the most reactionary Popes of this century." But last May, another state- controlled paper, Katolicke Noviny, lauded John Paul as the "untiring hero of international detente." The seeming thaw in East bloc-Vatican relations was not in evidence last year when the Czechoslovak government refused to permit John Paul to enter the country and lead last weekend's ceremonies for Methodius. In a surprise move, however, the Prague government later gave permission for the Vatican's Secretary of State...
...anniversary speech at the Kremlin. He too mixed hard rhetoric with soft sell, but overall his language was tougher than Reagan's. The U.S., he claimed, was "the forward edge of the war menace to mankind." Nevertheless, Gorbachev said his country was ready for a thaw in relations. "From our point of view, detente is not the end aim of politics," he said. "It is needed, but only as a transitional stage from a world cluttered with arms to a reliable and embracing international security system...