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...MOSCOW--Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other top leaders yesterday in a quick-paced Kremlin shake-up that brought Gorbachev closer to assuming a new, more powerful presidency...
Committee Chairman Egil Aarvik confirmed thatPresident Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S.Gorbachev were among the 97 candidates and"seriously considered" for the prize. Reagancalled the committee's decision "admirable...
Those facts of international life remain, but today they do not seem quite the immutable laws of nature they did four years ago, when Americans last chose a President. Since then, the Soviet Union has acquired a stunningly new and different leadership of its own. Mikhail Gorbachev is experimenting with ideas that could lead to reforms in the internal regime and improvements in the external behavior of the U.S.S.R. The potential for profound change in the nature of the Soviet challenge demands a thorough, imaginative rethinking of the American response...
...into our stores, Mikhail Sergeyevich!" shouted a woman in a crowd that surrounded Soviet Leader Gorbachev last week as he visited the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. "You'll find nothing there!" In the Soviet Union, where shortages of consumer goods are chronic, that complaint was not surprising. Nor were the criticisms voiced by Krasnoyarsk residents of housing, medical care and the Soviet bureaucracy...
...secrets in the 1930s because of "spy mania." Not surprisingly, he said, "we received numerous complaints. People did not recognize their motherland on maps." For years, space photography has enabled the U.S. to make highly reliable maps of the Soviet Union. But, Yashchenko said, it has taken Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost to spur his agency into releasing accurate maps...