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...your sightseeing," suggested United Nations Mediator Diego Cordovez to journalists gathered in Geneva last week. That advice was the first sign that the pace had slowed in what was to be the final round of talks aimed at settling Afghanistan's eight-year-old civil war. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev had set March 15 as the target date for concluding the negotiations, promising that if it was met, Moscow would begin withdrawing its 115,000-member army of occupation from Afghanistan by May 15. Yet last week key negotiators, including Pakistani Minister of State Zain Noorani, whose government represents...
...wake of one of the worst outbreaks of ethnic violence in modern Soviet history, Mikhail Gorbachev last week moved to confront the crisis in a safely bureaucratic manner. A high-level investigation will be launched to resolve grievances between the neighboring southern republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan that resulted in confrontations claiming at least 34 lives. At the same time, Gorbachev said, any solution must be based on "internationalist" principles. Most Soviet analysts took that remark as a coded warning to Armenians to set aside their nationalist aspirations, specifically, the goal of annexing the Nagorno-Karabakh district of Azerbaijan, which...
Reflecting Mikhail Gorbachev's call to report the bad news as well as the good, the Soviet media gave the event big play. News of the incident was first carried by TASS, within 24 hours. Follow-up reports included eyewitness accounts from passengers and reaction from shocked residents of Irkutsk. Soviet journalists found themselves bedeviled by the senseless tragedy. Why did they do it? Pravda asked. "They had everything they needed...
From the Soviet viewpoint, the West is a seamy bastion of greedy capitalists and sleazy businessmen. But thanks to recent economic reforms, some of these unsavory characters are now turning up at home. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week announced a Western-style remedy for dealing with the profiteers: a graduated income tax on private ventures...
After this "Festival of Making Music Together," American artists will go to the Soviet Union next year, Stearns said. The money raised from the March 27th performance of the ballet "Hommage A Plisetskaya," featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov, will be used to fund the trip which is expected to begin in the fall of 1989, Sterns said...