The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
298 THE END OF THE COLD WAR deter an attack, not to start one. To everyone’s surprise, Akhromeev acknowledged that the Soviet fo ...
GRINDING OUT THE TREATY 299 board – and he pounded the coffee table with the flat of his hand to reinforce the point.^86 On 31 M ...
300 THE END OF THE COLD WAR weapons they held, they were going to eliminate an entire category of ballistic missiles. World poli ...
27. CALLS TO WESTERN EUROPE To a man and woman, the West European leaders joined the chorus of approval of the results of the Mo ...
302 THE END OF THE COLD WAR shared Mitterrand’s priority for avoiding friction with Moscow. He took time to put his faith in Rea ...
CALLS TO WESTERN EUROPE 303 Margaret Thatcher communicated more frequently and directly with Reagan than the Pope did. She and t ...
304 THE END OF THE COLD WAR officials.^15 Thatcher took no notice. The worry for her remained that the Soviet leadership might b ...
CALLS TO WESTERN EUROPE 305 She started with panache. She dressed glamorously in fur hat and coat. She visited the Russian Ortho ...
306 THE END OF THE COLD WAR going home talking well of the Soviet leadership and perestroika. The word was that this had annoyed ...
CALLS TO WESTERN EUROPE 307 enment from Howe, who confined himself to expressing doubt that the dogmas of communist policy had d ...
308 THE END OF THE COLD WAR She in truth had a thing about him. They began to get on ‘like a house on fire’, and had intense and ...
CALLS TO WESTERN EUROPE 309 Kohl, and had rarely bothered herself with Andreotti. Rodric Braithwaite talked to her before taking ...
310 THE END OF THE COLD WAR and I was fifteen.’ Kohl and Shevardnadze discovered that each of them had a brother killed in the S ...
CALLS TO WESTERN EUROPE 311 for scientific and technical cooperation between Paris and Moscow; and Gorbachëv reported to the Pol ...
312 THE END OF THE COLD WAR I had noticed, like probably everyone else in the room, that when Gorbachev was giving a speech, she ...
CALLS TO WESTERN EUROPE 313 dispel foreign suspicions improved the diplomatic prospect – and Gorbachëv’s popularity in West Euro ...
28. EASTERN EUROPE: PERPLEXITY AND PROTEST Gorbachëv could not afford to court Western European governments at the expense of So ...
EASTERN EUROPE: PERPLEXITY AND PROTEST 315 relationship with the region. He hoped to drain the waters of national resentment by ...
316 THE END OF THE COLD WAR recognize that the people’s hatred of Jaruzelski’s administration was nigh universal. What he and th ...
EASTERN EUROPE: PERPLEXITY AND PROTEST 317 was a double irritation. He had racked up an unpayable debt to West German banks; at ...
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