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...called off the match, Belgian officials and members of the Union of European Football Associations decided that it should be played. "Call it a surrender to fear if you wish," said Association Treasurer Jo Van Marle. Italian Prime Minister Benedetto ("Bettino") Craxi, in Moscow for discussions with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, telephoned Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens after the riot to protest the decision. Said Martens: "I told him that the decision to begin play was taken purely for reasons of security." The crowd, which was largely unaware of the magnitude of the tragedy, watched the macabre match as helmeted...
...President on aid to the contras in Nicaragua, MX missile deployment and his defense buildup. Reagan's visit to a German military cemetery in Bitburg raised a storm of criticism at home and abroad. No breakthrough on arms control is in sight, and a summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev seems to be drifting into limbo. Tax reform, says former Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss, "is the best thing Ronald Reagan has going...
...Mikhail Gorbachev may not want a summit meeting with Ronald Reagan just yet, < but the Soviet leader sat down last week with U.S. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, who arrived in Moscow for the highest-level U.S.-Soviet trade talks since 1978. Gorbachev told Baldrige it is "high time to defrost the potential of Soviet-American cooperation," but he blamed the limited trade between the two countries on what he called Washington's discriminatory policies and interference in internal Soviet affairs. Afterward, Baldrige emphasized that improvements in trade "will depend on parallel improvements in other aspects of our relations...
Soviet citizens were startled one day last week when they turned to their morning reading of Pravda. There, on the front page, was a photograph of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Raisa -- rare exposure indeed for a Soviet First Lady. Just a day earlier Raisa Gorbachev had been mentioned briefly in a story distributed by the Soviet news agency TASS...
Soviet citizens barely had time last week to react to rare television footage of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev mingling with people on the streets of Leningrad, trading one-liners and urging greater work discipline, when they were asked to digest another, more jarring piece of news: a sweeping crackdown on a national pastime -- drinking. The decree raises the drinking age from 18 to 21, delays the daily opening of liquor stores by three hours, calls for a gradual cut in vodka production and an eventual ban on port, which the Soviets consume in huge quantities. The measure also prescribes harsh...