The World - News from July 13, 1986
Former President Richard M. Nixon began a six-day private visit to Moscow that is to include a meeting with Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the former Soviet ambassador to Washington and the Kremlin’s top adviser on relations with the West. Nixon, 73, refused to talk to reporters upon his arrival at Sheremetyevo Airport. His spokesman, John Taylor, said he did not know if Nixon would meet with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Nixon, the first U.S. President to visit Moscow, was last there in 1974 for a summit meeting with then-President Leonid I. Brezhnev.
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