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...million in the past four years to help underwrite university programs. Classroom study of current events from Soviet TV, beamed in via satellite, has become popular since Columbia started the practice in 1984. One reason for the scholarly surge: the warming climate of glasnost created by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But interest in Soviet studies has gained momentum steadily since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the renewed tensions between the superpowers over nuclear arms early in the Reagan presidency. Observes Russian History Professor James West of Trinity College in Connecticut: "We're one of the fields that benefit...
...letters will be sent to Soviet officials, professors and doctors to urge them to push for the refuseniks' release, organizers said. The Harvard students said they are sending the petitions to President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev...
...regime has begun bracing for strikes and protests. "Things just keep getting worse," says Tamas, 19, a blue jeans-clad vegetable seller in Budapest. "Everyone I know thinks there's going to be an explosion." The challenge for Hungary's rulers, as for Moscow's innovative Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, will be to contain such public discontent long enough for the economic reforms to bear fruit...
Ever since 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev first used the term glasnost to refer to the new openness that he hoped would invigorate Soviet society, the policy has had its high-level detractors. One of the most outspoken critics has been Yegor Ligachev, the second-ranking Communist Party leader in the Politburo, who has followed up nearly every official nod toward openness with an admonition of restraint...
...speeches, meetings and interviews has forced him to all but abandon his dacha outside Moscow and even his burning passion, chess. In recognition of his achievements at the Soviet Space Institute (IKI), he was chosen to head the Soviets' new Supercomputing Institute and was appointed as Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's special adviser on the U.S. Star Wars program...