Alexander A Bessmertnyk

The U.S.-Soviet statement proposing a Persian Gulf cease-fire if Iraq promises to pull out of Kuwait was intended as a gesture to keep Moscow from drifting away from the anti-Iraq coalition and not a softening of previous demands for total withdrawal, Bush Administration officials said Wednesday. The statement, issued Tuesday evening after four days of U.S.

The U.S.-Soviet statement proposing a Persian Gulf cease-fire if Iraq promises to pull out of Kuwait was intended as a gesture to keep Moscow from drifting away from the anti-Iraq coalition and not a softening of previous demands for total withdrawal, Bush Administration officials said Wednesday. The statement, issued Tuesday evening after four days of U.S.

American reporter Nicholas Daniloff was released to the U.S. Embassy here, and an accused Soviet spy was turned over to Soviet diplomats in New York on Friday under an arrangement that eases--but does not end--a major standoff between the superpowers. Daniloff, the first American correspondent imprisoned in the Soviet Union in 40 years, and accused Soviet spy Gennady F. Zakharov cannot return to their homelands, and still face the prospect of espionage trials under the deal worked out by U.S.