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America's agony drew widespread sympathy around the world. In Moscow, a somber TV announcer spoke factually about the disaster as videotapes of the aborted flight were broadcast throughout the Soviet Union. American music, including old Glenn Miller recordings, were broadcast on radio. Soviet Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev quickly joined the multitude of world leaders who sent condolences to President Reagan. "We partake of your grief at the tragic death of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger," he said...
Meanwhile Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), on a tour of Moscow, yesterday praised Sakharov before a group of Soviet scientists. Kennedy, in the Soviet Union as the guest of the nation's parliament, later met with Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...Reagan's who was National Security Adviser and supposedly the strong man of foreign policy when Shultz took office, have left the Government. Clark's successor, Robert McFarlane, took a front-and-center role in articulating policy for a while before Reagan's November summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, but soon afterward he too resigned...
...Mikhail Gorbachev's public campaign against corruption in the Soviet Union is now touching the friends of former President Leonid Brezhnev and his family. Acquaintances of Brezhnev's daughter Galina and his son Yuri are reportedly being questioned about bribery involving the use of posh hotel rooms and of restaurants for private banquets attended by well-connected figures from the Brezhnev era. The state-controlled press, without mentioning Brezhnev by name, has criticized the cronyism fostered during his 18-year rule...
Soviet and international affairs specialists from Harvard briefed President Reagan in Washington before his Geneva summit talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Adam B. Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, and Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes prepared the President for his first face-to-face meeting with the Kremlin...