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...room in Vienna's Soviet embassy for six hours, twice as long as scheduled. In painstaking detail, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko reiterated their stands on issues ranging from arms control to human rights. The latest Shultz-Gromyko exchange, the first since Mikhail Gorbachev assumed leadership of the Soviet Union in March, ended with no softening of opposing positions and no date or place set for the proposed Reagan-Gorbachev summit. Said a U.S. official who attended the meeting: "It was two stone walls confronting each other, and neither cracked...
...regret for their decision three weeks ago to refuse $14 million to the contras this year, even when the money was labeled humanitarian relief. The biggest factor in changing congressional minds was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's tete-a-tete in Moscow on April 29 with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Ortega continued his 13-day trip through the East bloc last week, meeting, among others, Polish Prime Minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...virtually the same time that Reagan addressed the European Parliament, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was giving his own V-E day anniversary speech at the Kremlin. He too mixed hard rhetoric with soft sell, but overall his language was tougher than Reagan's. The U.S., he claimed, was "the forward edge of the war menace to mankind." Nevertheless, Gorbachev said his country was ready for a thaw in relations. "From our point of view, detente is not the end aim of politics," he said. "It is needed, but only as a transitional stage from a world cluttered with arms...
...Army Major Arthur Nicholson by a Soviet sentry and over Moscow's refusal to accept blame for the incident. As a result, there was a preponderance of East bloc officials at the ceremonies. Along with the Soviet veterans came Vyacheslav Kochemasov, Moscow's Ambassador to East Germany, and General Mikhail Zaitsev, commander of Soviet forces there. General Yuri Naumenko read a message from Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who described the first Elbe meeting as "the symbol of hope and friendship" and called on veterans and young people to "prevent the fire of war from burning our earth...
...unhindered. Normally, that ritual ties up lesser motorists for only a few extra minutes; on this occasion, the tangle lasted much longer. The reason: the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, more than 300 members strong, had just concluded its first plenary session under the leadership of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, 54. The outcome of the meeting, held behind closed doors last week, would provide some evidence of Gorbachev's grasp on the authority he inherited from the late Konstantin Chernenko on March...