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Every move Mikhail Baryshnikov makes, onstage and off, seems to have been recorded and analyzed. In fact, more than half his professional life was lived in a shadow-the years before 1974, when he came to the U.S. Now, thanks to Theater Critic and Photographer Nina Alovert, who left the Soviet Union three years later, the dancer's Soviet career has been recaptured in Baryshnikov in Russia (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 212 pages...
Nuclear weapons are the central fact of the U.S.-Soviet relationship. But incipient entente, although modest, is also showing up elsewhere. Mikhail Gorbachev, heir apparent to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, will visit Britain for a week in December (see box). As Shultz arrives in Geneva in January, a U.S. Commerce official will be in Moscow for quieter talks about how to expand U.S.-Soviet trade. This week Soviet Minister of Agriculture Valentin Mesyats will begin a twelve-day tour of the American heartland; aside from Gromyko, no Soviet minister has visited the U.S. since 1979. Last week Pop Singer John...
Word that the superpowers would hold talks early next year in Geneva was the second sign that the Kremlin is looking for a diplomatic opening to the West. The first was that Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, the fast-rising heir apparent to President Konstantin Chernenko, will lead a Soviet delegation to Britain in mid-December. Gorbachev's trip will mark the first visit of a top-ranking Soviet leader to Britain in eight years. For Gorbachev, who has already seen more of the West than all but a few Politburo members, the visit might be the dress rehearsal...
...comment that "we have to live together on the same planet," relations between London and Moscow have steadily improved. According to some, this detente not only has helped spur the renewal of U.S.-Soviet arms talks but has also produced diplomatic rewards for Britain: on Dec. 15, Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev will lead a delegation to Britain. This will be followed next year by a visit from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...than 300 members. The importance of having those two titles became clear when Andropov was hastily made a party secretary as a prelude to assuming the top job. The only men who fit the bill at the moment are two of the youngest Politburo members, Grigori Romanov, 61, and Mikhail Gorbachev, 53. U.S. analysts believe that Gorbachev is now firmly established as the No. 2 man in the Kremlin. Thus, despite the political sclerosis, there are indications that the Politburo may be getting ready to hand over power to a younger generation...