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Despite the urgency of economic concerns, only a portion of the Venice summit will be devoted to economic issues. The leaders will blanket as many pressing issues as possible. First among them will be Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's challenging proposal to remove short- and intermediate-range nuclear weapons from Europe. Other conversations will probably focus on the defense of Persian Gulf oil traffic following the attack on the U.S. frigate Stark, the international war against drugs, the fight against the AIDS virus, and terrorism...
Sure enough, what began as a zany stunt swiftly escalated into a major crisis for the Soviet military command. Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who returned to Moscow on Friday from East Berlin, where he and Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov had been attending a Warsaw Pact summit, acted decisively. The next day Gorbachev convened an emergency meeting of the Politburo in the Kremlin. After that session, the Politburo fired Sokolov, 75, and Marshal of Aviation Alexander Koldunov, 63, who headed the nation's air- defense system. Sokolov was replaced as the top Soviet military leader by General of the Army...
...more intriguing features of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost (openness) is the willingness of the Kremlin leader to submit himself to the occasional foreign press interview. Last week Gorbachev held a lengthy question-and-answer session with L'Unita, the daily newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, in which he not only talked about international affairs but offered a rare glimpse into his personal interests...
...does Yevgeny Yevtushenko spell relief? G-L-A-S-N-O-S-T. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign of "openness" has given him another opportunity to star in his most celebrated role. Since he first packed them in at Mayakovsky Square during the early days of Khrushchev, the dramatic Siberian has been known internationally as the thaw poet. Less privileged Soviet writers know him for his adaptability on thin...
...Soviet Union, people have usually kept their views to themselves. Thus it came as a surprise last week when the Soviet daily Izvestia published an interview based on two public-opinion surveys. The polls were the latest example of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness...