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...interview with the Washington Post last week, Reagan said he had received a response to the invitation that Vice President George Bush hand- delivered to Mikhail Gorbachev at the funeral of his predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko. Administration officials said the President had received a "positive" reply, but admitted it was vague and noncommittal. "There are no negotiations for a summit," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, and added, "There has been no discussion about arrangements for a summit, no meeting set, no time set, nothing along those lines...
...drive to put computers in the classroom is apparently part of a plan by Soviet Party Boss Mikhail Gorbachev to revitalize the sluggish Soviet economy. Last year's growth in national income, the closest Soviet equivalent to gross national product, was a disappointing 2.6%, down from 3.1% in 1983 and only about half the size of the gains achieved in the 1960s. Many industries, including transportation and communications, are a decade or more behind the West in their use of computers, and that has retarded productivity increases. Moscow now seems to recognize that unless the Soviet Union produces...
...Kremlin predictably took a dim view of developments on Capitol Hill. "One gets the impression," wrote Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to a West German peace group, ". . . that they need these (arms) talks as a screen for carrying through their military programs. Appropriations of millions of dollars are being pushed through for the manufacture of new batches of first- strike MX missiles...
...those aching to be partaking in the instant history of a new finger on the nuclear button, the new hammer banging the Soviet sickle. Thomas G. Butson of the New York Time's instant-biography of Mikhail S. Gorbachev will come not second too soon...
...Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev might visit the U.S. this year. Late last week the Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun quoted Viktor Afanasyev, editor in chief of Pravda, as saying that a "strong possibility" exists that Gorbachev will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in September. There was no word on whether Gorbachev would also meet with President Reagan, who proposed a summit meeting in a letter to Gorbachev following the death of Konstantin Chernenko...