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...November day before he met with the Pope in Rome (not the least of the year's astonishments), Gorbachev said, "We need a revolution of the mind." The metaphysics of global power has changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory, information more powerful than military hardware. For many years, the Soviets lived in paranoid isolation, fearful of Western culture (an old Russian tradition) and estranged from it in somewhat the way that Ayatullah Khomeini's Iranians quarantined themselves from the secular poisons of the West. Peasant cultures shrink from foreign contamination...
...world's ancient art treasures located inside its borders, Italy has become the capital of high- tech restoration. Experts from such citadels of art as the Louvre, the Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are making pilgrimages to Italy to see how it is done in Rome, not to mention Venice, Milan and Florence...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central ! America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
Gorbachev made those remarks in Rome's city hall, where the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Community was signed in 1957. Although 32 years late to the party, he once again proclaimed his support of a European "commonwealth of sovereign democratic states" and urged that a 35-nation Helsinki conference be convened next year to find solutions to "common European problems...
...speeches in Rome, one of them with Pope John Paul II at his side, Mikhail Gorbachev spoke about the decline of Communism, the future of Europe and the role of religion in terms that few people would ever have expected from a Kremlin leader. Excerpts...