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The World - News from May 21, 1985

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Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev is unlikely to come to the United Nations this fall, removing the occasion for an easily arranged meeting with President Reagan this year, informed sources quoted by the Washington Post said. A White House official said “signals” on Gorbachev’s intentions were received in Vienna last week when Secretary of State George P. Shultz met Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko. After that six-hour session, White House officials reportedly began to separate the question of a summit from that of a Gorbachev U.N. appearance.

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