Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commanding presence that Gorbachev has been able to exert on the world stage has helped shore up his power at home. This week he is again on the road. In his visit with Cuba's Fidel Castro, who is no fan of perestroika or glasnost, the Soviet leader will have a chance to show whether his rhetoric about new thinking translates into taking concrete steps toward easing tensions in Central America. Afterward, he plans to go to London to see if Margaret Thatcher still believes, as she once said of Gorbachev, that "we can do business together...
...husband, a fellow teacher) the prominence of an editorial. After it appeared, orders were issued, supposedly by Yegor Ligachev, then the party's leading ideologue, that the letter should be studied by military units and other party cadres. Significantly, publication took place the day Gorbachev departed on a visit to Yugoslavia. After his return, Pravda counterattacked, labeling the letter "an attempt to reverse party policy...
...would be nice to think that America has thrown open its doors and is waiting for us all to come over. But that's not the way it is. The Soviet Union has thrown open its doors, and it seems like all America has come here on a visit. So it goes...
Today, the vigil participants hope that ThomasProfessor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox and formerDivinity School Dean Krister T. Stendahl willvisit the protest, said Stoltzfus. Cox said in aninterview that he supported the student's actionsand would probably visit them this weekend...
They debated strategy, talked politics, smoked cigarettes and dope, sang protest songs, took naps. And long after the students had been forcibly removed from the building, the effects of their visit were felt in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...