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...Soviet government's astonishingly blunt report on Chernobyl is but one of a number of examples of Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness. In recent months Soviet officials and journalists have been discussing the difficulties and shortcomings of their society with unprecedented candor, and newspaper and magazine editors have been publishing more and more critical letters from readers...
...Soviet truculence left Western analysts wondering why Moscow had agreed to the meeting in the first place. Some suggested the Helsinki overture reflected the less menacing and more flexible foreign policy that General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev has been developing. The Soviets must renew relations with Israel if they hope to play a central role in any Middle East peace process. They may also have agreed to the meeting in an attempt to defuse hostility within the U.S. Jewish community, thus lessening the chance of anti-Soviet demonstrations should Gorbachev journey to Washington later this year for a summit with President...
...give an air of importance to the summer lull, are all too willing to play along with staged news, and thus share a complicity. President Reagan now has big-league competition in the creation of news, non-news and is-it-or-isn't-it news. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has obviously spent a lot of time analyzing not just Reagan's positions but his techniques for putting them across. The Kremlin has shown a new adroitness in presenting its case abroad. Reagan and Gorbachev have spent the summer in graceful minuet, each moving a step forward or backward, finding...
...Mikhail Gorbachev, supersalesman, was at it again, making a disarmingly simple offer that seemed hard to refuse. If the U.S. would follow the U.S.S.R. in halting all nuclear testing, said the Soviet leader, the agreement would be "some kind of prologue" to eliminating nuclear weapons. In a televised speech, Gorbachev announced that his moratorium on underground testing, which began in August 1985, would be extended for a fourth time, to Jan. 1, 1987. He even suggested that a comprehensive test-ban treaty might be signed at a summit meeting with President Reagan this year...
Raisa Gorbachev has been an elegant companion on her husband Mikhail's visits to factories, farms and foreign countries. Now the wife of the Soviet leader is stepping out on her own. When she attended a Chinese embassy fashion show earlier this month, her visit was seen as a small but significant part of Moscow's efforts to improve relations with Peking...