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GELSEY KIRKLAND lived the dream of many young girls. She was, for 10 years, one of the prima ballerinas of American dance. New ballets were created specifically for her by the finest choreographers. She was the hand-picked partner and lover of Soviet sensation Mikhail Baryshnikov. She guest-starred with companies throughout the world. She was hailed as the ballerina of our time...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had long urged Reagan to break SALT II as retaliation for alleged Soviet violations, but State Department officials feared the move would bolster Soviet charges that the U.S. was intent on scuttling arms-control negotiations. Indeed, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev hinted as much during his visit to India last week, terming the deployment of the B-52 a "major mistake" that called into question the "entire logic of the Reykjavik talks." In Moscow the Foreign Ministry warned that the Soviet Union would be forced to beef up its own nuclear arsenal...
...profound conviction that space, this common property of mankind, should be exclusively peaceful and that what we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars." So said Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a four-day visit to India last week, his first journey to Asia since he took office in March 1985. In a speech before the Indian Parliament, Gorbachev declared that "what the world saw six weeks ago in Reykjavik was not a mirage of a nuclear-free world looming on the horizon, but a reality within reach, which the two sides could attain even tomorrow, if they have...
With the evident approval of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Jaruzelski hopes to turn Poland's economy around by adopting the kind of quasi-capitalist reforms that have been introduced in Hungary since 1968. Among them: giving greater responsibility to factory managers, encouraging private enterprise to boost exports and consumer goods and services, creating wage incentives to improve productivity and reforming the tax system to stimulate investment. But the regime faces an uphill struggle. At every level, bureaucrats committed to centralized planning have for too long kept the country locked into a rigid economic system devoted to heavy industrial production...
...showdown in North Korea. Over the past two years Kim has engineered a pronounced tilt in Pyongyang's Sino-Soviet policies toward Moscow. Just two months ago the North Korean President made a hastily arranged visit to the Soviet capital, his second in 29 months, for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviets provide North Korea with MiG-23 fighter aircraft and Scud surface-to-surface missiles. In return, they have acquired calling rights at the North Korean ports of Nampo and Najin and clearance for military reconnaissance flights from Vladivostok to the Soviet air base at Cam Ranh...