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...least a few medical-promotion ideas suggested by overzealous ad agencies have been less than tasteful. One print ad proposed for St. Mary's Hospital Regional Laser Center in Milwaukee read: "Mikhail Gorbachev knows how lasers can be used to zap enemy missiles. But he might be surprised to learn how they can also be used to zap away problem birthmarks, like the reddish-purple one on his forehead." The hospital turned down the ad before...
...most of those who were welcomed back to the Soviet Union last week had tried vainly to return for years. But they had been denounced as traitors for leaving their homeland, and many had all but abandoned hope of seeing it again. Under the liberalizing influence of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, however, Moscow has had a change of heart. Last week's returnees were the third group in the past three months to flock home. According to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, 1,000 more emigres are awaiting permission to make the same journey. "Now that we are opening...
Sakharov's views may conveniently get lost in the din of glasnost. Gorbachev may further hope that Sakharov will give Moscow's lagging reform agenda a practical boost at home and a political lift abroad. Toward that end, Sakharov played his part well. "I have great respect for Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev," he told Western reporters. "I find the new policy of openness in this country very important...
White House Adviser Oliver North, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and South Africa's Nelson and Winnie Mandela left their stamp on the year just past...
...crisis of faith in the White House only counterpointed a new air of confidence in the Kremlin. In 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev continued his brisk public relations offensive by sweeping the cobwebs out of his foreign service and introducing a little fresh air into the long-closed rooms of Soviet public life. In September he managed to trump Washington when the KGB released U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff in exchange for a proven spy. Just two weeks later, Gorbachev again seemed to outmaneuver President Reagan at their unofficial summit in Iceland. The two leaders came closer than ever before...