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...messenger from Moscow had given no clues about whether he was carrying the fresh arms-control proposal that other Soviet officials had been hinting at for two months. The silence surprised his hosts. Was the Kremlin continuing its long propaganda prelude to the November summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev? Had Moscow changed its mind about a significant new proposal...
Moscow's reaction to the British expulsions was interpreted as a blunt message to the West from Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev two months before his November summit with President Ronald Reagan. "He may want to look like a man you can do business with," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. "But he also doesn't want to look like a weakling." With grudging admiration for the Soviet leader's tactics, a British official declared, "The way the Russians have played tit for tat demonstrates Gorbachev's skill in making the best...
Even more tantalizing, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told visiting U.S. Senators that Moscow was willing to make "radical proposals" for cutting back offensive weapons if the U.S. would restrict its Star Wars program to "fundamental research." For the first time, Gorbachev moved away from a demand that the U.S. drop SDI altogether. Many American experts noted with cautious interest the signs of flexibility. "The Soviets are now laying out the terms of a deal," said John Steinbruner, foreign policy director of the Brookings Institution in Washington...
Last Tuesday, Reagan began the news conference with a spirited stand on free trade, an open invitation to a question that would give him a chance to vent his ire against the Democrats. Instead, reporters instantly changed the subject to the coming summit meeting with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev. From there they wandered back and forth through a dozen subjects ranging from AIDS to spies. Too few questioners seemed to hear, or care about, any answers...
...quite another to chastise those in power. Last week Yevtushenko, 52, who once was considered a daring anti-Establishment voice in his country, demonstrated anew his recognition of that crucial difference. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, published a Yevtushenko poem that condemns the sluggish bureaucracy that General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev repeatedly has blamed for blocking economic progress. Wrote Yevtushenko: "They jammed sticks/ in the wheels of the first locomotive/ to make sure it wouldn't work,/ quacks gripped the surgeon's knife/ when he cut on a heart/ to save a man's life . . ./ 'Because it might not work...