Gorbachev’s Wife Wants to Visit U.S.
Soviet First Lady Raisa Gorbachev, in a rare chat with Western reporters in Moscow, said today she wants to visit the United States and hopes her husband and President Reagan will hold a second summit meeting.
Security men ended the conversation before reporters from United Press International and U.S. News and World Report could ask Mrs. Gorbachev about the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.
Although surprised by the impromptu meeting in Red Square with two Western journalists, the wife of the Soviet leader quickly nodded, said, “Hello,” and raised her fingers in a gesture to let alarmed security men know she was all right.
“I hope to come to the United States soon and I hope there will be a meeting between my husband and President Reagan,” the soft-spoken Soviet first lady said.
“And as my husband says, we hope specific agreements will be concluded that will lessen the fear that hangs over us,” she said, speaking in Russian.
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