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Last week's exhibition brought those works into public view, marking another milestone in Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost campaign. "Heavenly things," said Valentina Chagall upon catching her first look at some of her husband's earliest paintings. "My only regret is that he could not be here...
...nine-page advertising supplement that appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal was a first for the venerable organ of capitalism. In enthusiastic but occasionally stilted prose, the Communist government of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued an open invitation to Western businesses to invest in the Soviet Union. Beginning with a Gorbachev message on perestroika, or restructuring, of the economy, the insert highlights Soviet attempts to facilitate joint ventures with the West, touts tourist attractions and hails Soviet achievements in areas like eye surgery...
...Helmut Kohl was about to announce plans to retire 72 aging Pershing IA missiles tipped with American nuclear warheads. At a stroke, one of the chief obstacles to a long-awaited Soviet-American agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces seemed to dissolve, and a Washington summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev again loomed likely for this fall. Despite a flurry of official denials, reports from Moscow claimed ; that the Soviet leader was freeing up the last week in October for such a trip...
...does anyone in West or East Germany take seriously the idea that reunification is possible in the foreseeable future. It is clear, for one thing, that the Soviets would never tolerate the revival of a strong Germany, neutral or otherwise. "The existence of two German states is a reality," Mikhail Gorbachev declared during a visit to Moscow by President von Weizsacker. "One must start from that...
...nothing has happened. Glasnost, like Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of the same name (meaning openness or public disclosure), has survived and expanded. Two weeks ago, the second edition of the magazine, now up to 184 pages, was distributed. Among the articles: details of new emigration rules and recent actions by the KGB -- subjects barely covered by the official press. Whether the Vechernaya Moskva article was intended as an official warning is unknown. What is certain is that only two years ago Grigoryants would have been bundled off to a labor camp. Instead, like the editors of the country...