Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warheads. Watching from a corner of the cramped underground control center was a tall, droll Yankee naval officer who describes himself as a "country boy from Oklahoma": Admiral William J. Crowe, 64, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American military official ever to visit the U.S.S.R...
Toward the end of Akhromeyev's trip to the U.S. last year, he remarked privately that the experience had convinced him that the U.S. would never start a war. The Soviets clearly hoped Crowe's return visit would inspire a reciprocal conviction. But Crowe was not willing to go quite that far. He left for home, he said, "understanding emotionally what I'd only understood intellectually before: the vastness of the real estate for which the Soviet armed forces are responsible, and the historical vulnerability to invasion. That's something hard for Americans to conceive of. After...
...question was which direction Tehran would look in first. Last week Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful Speaker of Iran's parliament, provided the answer. Interrupting his observance of a 40-day period of national mourning for the late Imam, Rafsanjani arrived in Moscow to an elaborate reception. The visit was the beginning of a thaw between neighbors whose relations had been frosty for most of Khomeini's rule. Said Rafsanjani after his first day: "I already feel almost at home...
Though Mikhail Gorbachev initially seemed subdued in welcoming Rafsanjani in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin, the President was soon smiling and bantering with his guest, the highest Iranian official to visit Moscow since the days of the Shah. In two meetings, the two sides signed four agreements providing for, among other things, a new rail link between Soviet Turkmenistan and the northern Iranian city of Mashhad, which would help fulfill a longtime Moscow goal of greater access to the Persian Gulf. There were discussions, but no final accord, on reopening a gas pipeline from Iran to Soviet Transcaucasia...
...least twice a week, Calvin Bentsen sets out at daybreak to visit his rhinos...