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During the past year Mikhail Gorbachev has attempted to build an image of a new style of Moscow ruler--responsible, candid and sophisticated. Yet today's Soviet leadership looked very much like those of the past. Soviet credibility in Western Europe, which had been a target of much of the new diplomatic offensive, has been particularly damaged. Gorbachev's goal of taking up the mantle of the recognized champion of a nuclear-free world has certainly been set back. Last Tuesday, when a Soviet diplomat was trying to elicit West German help with the accident cleanup while providing as little...
Smiling and affable, Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in East Germany last week. Emerging from his Aeroflot IL-62 jet, the Soviet leader, followed by his wife Raisa, flashed his friendliest grin as he greeted East German Party Chief Erich Honecker with a hug and kisses on both cheeks. Gorbachev had come to East Berlin for the East German Communist Party Congress...
...introduced to Director Roman Polanski, who casts her in his new film, Pirates. Next, she beats out 500 other girls for a coveted part in the upcoming Eddie Murphy comedy Golden Child. Then gossip columnists report that Charlotte Lewis, 18, once linked with Polanski, is now seeing Ballet Star Mikhail Baryshnikov, but the lady describes both men as "just good friends." Sorry, folks, a script it's not. She says that it is all true, and why not believe her? Lewis is delightfully candid and seemingly unaffected by her promising career. "I don't think I knew anything about...
BERLIN--Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev stepped up his courtship of Western Europe yesterday saying he would support disbanding the Warsaw Pact and NATO alliances...
...House official after a week of intensive U.S.-Soviet diplomacy. For the past four months, Washington and Moscow have moved further and further away from the tentative feelings of cooperation engendered by the "spirit of Geneva," highlighted by the face-to-face meetings of Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in November. But last week, after a round of busy sessions in Washington, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were edging toward another summit. Declared Secretary of State George Shultz: "It's clear that both sides agreed that there should be a next meeting, in the U.S., that...