Hoover Institution Visit Called Off
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev will not make a previously announced visit to the Hoover Institution during his trip to Stanford University next week.
Soviet officials decided that Gorbachev’s schedule during his June 3 and 4 visit to the Bay Area “was just too tight,” Bob Freelen, Stanford vice president for public affairs, said Monday.
During the Stanford visit, Gorbachev will meet with University President Donald Kennedy; former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, now a professor of international economics at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and with students and other faculty members at the school of business.
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a longtime bastion of anti-communism, has one of the world’s largest collection of material on the 1917 Russian Revolution, including “mug shots” of known revolutionaries that came from the secret police files of the czarist days.
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