Moscow Summit: Tag-Team Diplomacy

Bush helps Gorbachev in the Ukraine, and the Soviet leader returns the favor on the Middle East

Last week's Moscow summit had been billed as the final act of the cold war. But within hours after Air Force One touched down at Sheremetyevo Airport, it was clear that the last vestiges of East-West tension had dissolved long before George Bush's arrival. In what both sides agreed was the friendliest U.S.-Soviet summit ever, Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev laughed and joked their way through the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which will reduce the two superpowers' nuclear arsenals, and a series of other agreements covering everything from agriculture to the arts. Bush agreed to try to provide...

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