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...Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, proposed that the super-powers reach an agreement apart from other arms negotiations on eliminating medium-range missiles from Europe in five years...
Celebrity bashes are not the Kremlin's forte, but last week's coming- out party for Mikhail Gorbachev was worthy of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The stars that shone at the glamorous gala ranged from literature (Graham Greene) through economics (John Kenneth Galbraith) to fashion (Pierre Cardin). The only common denominator seemed to be that the guests had world-size reputations and were willing to give a polite hearing to the Kremlin's pitch for peace...
...event unfolded, it was soon apparent that the brightest star among the throng of nearly 1,000 foreigners and more than 300 Soviets meeting in the Grand Kremlin Palace was Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Indeed, so firmly did Gorbachev bestride the event that many observers professed to be dazzled. Said Novelist Gore Vidal, whose tongue is usually coated with acerbity: "The only interesting political moves in the world right now are being made by Gorbachev. History seems to be moving again, and I want to get a sense...
...Kazakhstan, during the previous day and night. Cars and a food store were burned, TASS said, and townspeople had been "insulted." Never before had the Soviets, who blamed the protests on "nationalist elements," reported such violence so frankly and promptly. The revelation was seen as another sign of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for glasnost, or openness. Still, Western journalists have long been barred from Alma-Ata -- until last week. Flying to the city with eleven other reporters, TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson pieced together a firsthand account of the violence in Alma-Ata and its ambiguous aftermath...
...students were hardly back in their dormitories before Politburo Member Mikhail Solomentsev was dispatched to Alma-Ata to dress down party officials and order changes. "We are all apologizing," a young government official ruefully commented when asked how things had been going since the riots. "We are cleaning things...