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...past decade, Graham has managed to preach salvation and world peace in Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Hungary and -- three times -- the Soviet Union. Last April he conducted his first tour of mainland China, where his wife Ruth was raised by missionary parents. Prior to the arduous three-week visit, he was briefed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger; during it, he was the second foreign dignitary (after Corazon Aquino) to be received by new Premier Li Peng...
...Soviet visit, Graham was lambasted for downplaying religious repression; he contends he was more effective by raising the problem in private. When the post-glasnost Graham preached last June at Orthodox and Baptist churches in Kiev, the authorities allowed outdoor loudspeakers for the overflow crowds, numbering in the thousands. During the Soviet adventures, he added admiration for the Eastern Orthodox to his longtime friendliness toward Roman Catholics. "I find the Lord's people among all these groups," remarks Graham, whose toleration infuriates Fundamentalists...
...West German businessmen who accompanied Kohl offered the Soviets a $1.7 billion line of credit and some 30 trade agreements worth about $1.5 billion. Only two weeks before the Germans arrived, Italy's Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita cemented deals worth billions of dollars during his own three-day visit to Moscow...
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WORLD: Why the U. S. is the issue in Canada' s election A trade pact raises questions about the country' s identity. -- Should the West toast perestroika? -- A visit to rural Haiti shows why the country will always remain dirt poor...