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...agreeing to an interview with TIME, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was obviously hoping to have his words read and analyzed around the world. As it turned out, his well-informed if one-sided comments made the desired splash. In the U.S., the interview and a subsequent meeting with a group of visiting Senators got such heavy TV play that a State Department official grumbled about "Gorbachev getting more camera time than Brooke Shields." In Western Europe, France's respected Le Monde front-paged the interview, while the Milan daily Corriere della Sera, generally considered to be the most influential newspaper...
...when it blatantly misleads. It is in such a context that news stories about the forthcoming summit meeting should be judged. Reagan and his advisers used to say that summits without well-prepared agendas could be harmful; now his people speak of a "get acquainted" meeting with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan has said that we cannot trust the evil empire; does this suggest he would not be interested in reaching agreements? That would trouble Europe and many Americans. His people spread the word that a start on relieving international tensions would crown Reagan's career. Gorbachev, with fewer constituencies...
...time acquaintance and classmate of the new Soviet leader yesterday cautioned a Coolidge Hall audience against expecting Mikhail S. Gorbachev to institute "radical reforms" in Soviet society...
...finally, to a part in an upcoming series, Lime Street, starring Robert Wagner. Smith was eulogized in Moscow as a champion of peace, and her funeral drew 1,000 mourners, including Wagner and Vladimir Kulagin, a Soviet diplomat who read a personal message of condolence from Party Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
...propaganda has often sounded to the rest of the world, and even to Soviet citizens, like, well, propaganda. The Soviets were once clumsy and loutish as salesmen. When Nikita Khrushchev wanted to make a point at the United Nations in 1960, he took off his shoe and waved it. Mikhail Gorbachev, by contrast, is a walking advertisement for a different Soviet way of doing things. He is a smooth performer in public and a skillful articulator of the Kremlin line. Like the new man in charge, Soviet propaganda has become subtler and more adroit. A recent example: the slick...