Abstract

Editorials

The article presents information on several political developments in the world. In his speech to the United Nations on December 7, 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev seized the political initiative from a dormant U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration, outlined his vision of a new world order and set the foreign policy agenda for 1989 and beyond. Gorbachev's proposals unilaterally cutting conventional military forces, redeploying thousands of Soviet troops in Eastern Europe in a defensive posture, converting military enterprises to meet domestic needs, placing the United Nations and its agencies at the center of a new alignment. Vice presidential candidate Jesse Jackson almost got to the White House. Lunch with politician George Bush was laid out in the vice presidential office, next-door to the Executive Mansion, but for Jackson it was a potent symbol of legitimacy and acceptance.