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...presidents have made it here for anniversary celebrations. Harvard has had luminaries like King Juan Carlos, Alexander Solzhynitsin, Olaf Palme, Giscard d'Estaing, and even Burt Ward visit recently. But it took four years for Reagan to find the time to meet with any Soviet leader, and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachov still gets put on hold when he calls to wish Ron a happy birthday. So who are we to complain...
...strains of the Internationale, the Communist anthem, faded as Mikhail Gorbachev rose one last time to drive home his message in the Kremlin's cavernous Palace of Congresses. He began by hailing the 5,000 delegates and distinguished foreign guests at the 27th Communist Party Congress, which had given him a resounding mandate to revitalize the country's sputtering economy. Then he threw down the gauntlet. "Here's to the work we've done, comrades," declared the General Secretary. "And now for the work yet to be done...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan yesterday announced he had sent Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev a "new, very specific and far-reaching proposal" on nuclear testing that could open the way to U.S. ratification of two longdormant test ban treaties...
...nervous silence fell over the audience as the General Secretary paused to catch his breath. Throughout the opening day of the 27th Soviet Communist Party Congress, Mikhail Gorbachev, standing behind a polished wood lectern emblazoned with a hammer and sickle, had hectored and preached with passion and zeal. Caught by a momentary fit of coughing, he inhaled deeply and scanned the thousands of faces that filled the plush red seats before him. Offhandedly, Gorbachev remarked, "I am coming to the end." Hesitantly at first, then in mounting waves, appreciative laughter swept through the cavernous Kremlin Palace of Congresses...
Presiding over the Communist Party congress last week, Mikhail Gorbachev reassured his comrades that he could improve the performance of the Soviet system without altering its basic tenets. Same ends, more efficient means. That seems to be the guiding principle of what will become known as the Gorbachev era. In Kremlin foreign policy, there has already been a noticeable change, not so much in goals and substance as in method and style. Deft and often deceptive flexibility rather than rigid continuity is now the order...