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...voted against school lunch programs. When asked how he could justify that vote to poor families, he responded: "They didn't ask me those questions." His civil rights rating is among the lowest in the Senate. In the area of foreign policy, he has said that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is merely a modern-day Stalin. He is unqualified for the vice presidency...
...students also discussed the informal groups that have become a focus of extracurricular activity among students since the beginning of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's term as head of the Soviet Union. Before then, these groups existed but the government considered them dissident organizations, the students said...
Kohl made the statement at a news conference at which he reviewed the results of 10 hours of talks he held this week with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other top Soviet officials...
Such a move would be one of the most dramatic signs yet from Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev that he seeks a definitive break with past Soviet human rights practices, which have included the confinement of people who disagree publicly with Kremlin policy...
...when Joseph Stalin forcibly collectivized agriculture. More than 10 million people are believed to have died of starvation as Stalin herded peasants onto huge state farms and marched their former bosses, the well-to-do kulaks, off to Siberia. Given history and Communist dogma, it seemed that not even Mikhail Gorbachev would dare challenge the primacy of the collective farm in the system. But last week the General Secretary did exactly that...