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...Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. I thought he was very open (during meetings in Moscow last May). He spoke very frankly. He's got lots of new ideas for the Soviet Union. He is going to be tough as a leader. He is not going to be a pushover. He is young, dynamic. He is a leader who has sufficient backing within the system to do what he thinks has to be done. You can talk to him. I certainly think he is a man the West will do business with. I liked him. There is a certain warmth and openness...
...repeated as people discover that their national tipple is harder to buy. The ability to consume large quantities of alcohol and stay upright was long regarded as a sign of manhood, a badge of fraternity in a centuries-old bond of suffering. But no more. Last May, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced laws restricting the sale and production of alcohol. Almost overnight the authorities began a major campaign against a problem that is listed as the third most common ailment in the country, after heart disease and cancer...
Whatever it was called, Mikhail Gorbachev's first foray to the West since he became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party last March was freighted with a variety of expectations. But in addition to the matters of policy raised in his travels, one important question for many Kremlinologists was whether Gorbachev would continue to display the skills of salesmanship that have won him a reputation as the Great Soviet Communicator...
...Soviets were outraged. The news agency TASS condemned the Katakov killing as an "atrocity that cannot be pardoned." Israel, TASS added, was indirectly responsible because it was the "prime cause of internal Lebanese strife." In Paris, where Mikhail Gorbachev was meeting with French officials, a Kremlin spokesman said that the Soviet leader was doing "everything possible" to free the three remaining hostages...
...major speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and an interview with TIME, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger stressed that Moscow is "very far along" in missile-defense R. and D. President Reagan, in impromptu comments to the press on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of SDI, ventured the surprising estimate that "the Soviet Union is about ten years ahead of us in developing a defensive system." To buttress such arguments, the Pentagon and State Department jointly released a 27-page pamphlet summing up what Washington knows about the Kremlin's version of Star Wars. Briefing journalists...