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...week before our arrival Mikhail Gorbachev had made a major speech at a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. He blasted the outmoded practices of the past, stressed his determination to proceed with the changes already in motion and proposed some startling innovations in the Soviet political system, including competitive elections for important posts...
...ornate guesthouse of the Foreign Ministry; in the homey, book-lined apartment of Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner; and in the conference room of the headquarters of the Central Committee where, with pictures of Marx and Lenin peering down at us, we had a three-hour meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev...
Already published is Chingiz Aitmatov's The Executioner's Scaffold, which removed the taboo from the subject of drug addiction in our country. Poet Andrei Voznesensky published his powerful The Ditch, a piece about thieves who robbed the graves of Nazi victims. Mikhail Shatrov's antidictatorship play Dictatorship of Conscience is being performed...
What in Lenin's name was going on in Moscow? Soviet oratory can be numbingly dull and dutiful, but the interminable speeches at least provided time for a good snooze. Mikhail Gorbachev had hardly got going in his address to the Central Committee last week, however, when the 307 members must have realized that this was a speech they could not afford to sleep through. Though Gorbachev went on for some three hours, there was hardly a dull moment. The General Secretary of the Communist Party had a bracing message for his colleagues in the Kremlin: the Soviet socialist system...
...WORLD: Mikhail Gorbachev sets a bold agenda of reform for the Soviet Union...