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“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. “Mr ...

Soviet diplomats frequently call at the State Department. Particularly since the Geneva summit, there has been a great deal of mid-level diplomacy. So there was no reason to expect anything out of the ...

Ich bin ein Berliner,'' John F. Kennedy proclaimed in 1963. Of communism's defenders, he roared, "Let them come to Berlin!'' Standing at the communist barrier dividing the same city 24 years later, ...