The State - News from Jan. 12, 1987

The Soviet Consulate in San Francisco held a reception for 17 students of Sacramento’s C. K. McClatchy High School who had written a plea for peace to President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The students dined on a buffet of piroshki, caviar, salami, chocolate and tea. Vice Consul Sergei Aivazian said Gorbachev, who ordered the reception, “shares the feelings and desires of the McClatchy High School students that the ability to trust each other would lead to peace and he felt he had to reply.” The White House sent the students a form letter saying Reagan doesn’t want war. The reception was the first such event at the consulate since it opened in 1972.