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In dealing with foreign powers too the President has been self-confident and assertive. Secretary of State George Shultz last week had barely begun to list the pros and cons of the President's going to Moscow to attend the funeral of Konstantin Chernenko and meet the new Soviet leader...
On the day of Konstantin Chernenko's funeral, TIME's Nancy Traver walked through the streets of Moscow asking many people for their thoughts about their former leader, about Mikhail Gorbachev and about their hopes for the future. Several of the citizens she questioned asked for her identification; one man...
Familiarity is said to breed either contempt or children, but it is not supposed to enhance a mystery. The West has grown familiar with Soviet transferals of power in the past 28 months: Brezhnev became Andropov became Chernenko. Last week the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, strode under Western eyes...
Gorbachev also shook the big stick. During a meeting with Pakistan's President Zia ul-Haq, in Moscow for the funeral, the General Secretary issued a thinly veiled warning that the U.S.S.R. might actively foment trouble inside Pakistan if its government continues to cooperate with the U.S. in supporting the...
Before moving into the future, Gorbachev had to take leave of the past. His first days in power were filled with the pomp and panoply of a funeral that brought heads of state and other dignitaries from 49 nations to the Soviet capital. Television coverage gave Soviet citizens a closer...