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White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater expressed disappointment that the Soviets had launched an offensive instead of beginning a troop withdrawal. In a White House statement, President Reagan congratulated Mikhail Gorbachev on being named TIME's Man of the Year, but he also called on the Soviet leader to announce firm plans for a pullout. The State Department, though, speculated that Moscow may be planning to withdraw even as the fighting intensifies. Said one official: "It's entirely possible that the Soviets are planning to shorten the withdrawal timetable while the military people in Kabul are plugging away...
...Czechoslovakia during the spring, the Communist Party led by Alexander Dubcek undertook reforms that now seem a distant forerunner of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost -- efforts to humanize the socialist structure, to encourage greater individual discretion. Euphoria bloomed in the "Prague Spring." But the Soviets could not tolerate that measure of autonomy in their satellite, any more than they could abide Hungary in 1956 or, later, Poland in 1981. In August 1968, Soviet and other Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Prague and crushed the hope. Not long after, Dubcek ended up working obscurely for the Forestry Administration in western Slovakia...
Interest in Mikhail Gorbachev's long goodbye speech to the American press last month was starting to flag when the General Secretary made an offhand remark that brought heads up with a snap. The technology exists, he said, that would permit the superpowers to spot nuclear weapons on each other's ships and submarines without having to climb on board. According to Gorbachev, this technique would "identify not only the presence but also the capacity of the nuclear warheads aboard such vessels." Come again? Have the Soviets managed to develop a spy satellite that can peer through the hull...
...When her husband was summoned back to Moscow in 1978 to take charge of Soviet agriculture, Raisa became a lecturer in Marxist-Leninist philosophy at Moscow State University. Though she gave up the post after Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985, she evidently remains very much the intellectual, accompanying Mikhail to cultural performances and displaying a command of foreign books. During the December summit she told Joyce Carol Oates that she had read the novelist's book Angel of Light and said it was well liked in the U.S.S.R...
...Soviet behavior abroad. Millions of television $viewers around the world have grown $accustomed to his face -- and welcomed the $December agreement he signed with the U. S. $banning intermediate- range nuclear missiles. $The West still distrusts him, and his own $countrymen do not always agree with his $reforms, but Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev so $dominated the world scene in 1987 that he is $TIME's Man of the Year. But who is he? What $forces have shaped his mind, his methods? How $did he rise from Privolnoye to power? TIME $presents a candid biography of the year' s most $remarkable figure...