Informal Exchange With Reporters
06/18/1987
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I think there has been a sizable improvement, and we still are going to continue doing that.
For the first time in history, an entire class of U.S.-Soviet nuclear missiles is eliminated.
Where people have the right to speak, write, travel, and worship freely, creative energies are released.
I think that a great deal of it is due to the General Secretary, who I have found different than previous Soviet leaders have been.