The World - News from Feb. 1, 1989
The Rev. Jesse Jackson met with Soviet Communist Party Politburo member Alexander N. Yakovlev in Moscow and called for closer U.S.-Soviet cooperation on disarmament, space exploration and in resolving regional conflicts, poverty and illiteracy. The civil rights activist also told Yakovlev that Moscow and Washington should work together to end apartheid in South Africa and civil war in Afghanistan and Central America, according to the Tass news agency. Jackson, who is scheduled to visit Armenia, toured a Moscow hospital treating children injured in the December earthquake there.
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