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Article: GORBACHEV SEEKS HIGH-TECH EXPERTISE TOURS EXHIBIT IN WEST GERMANY.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 14, 1989
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Byline: Associated Press
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, buoyed by an outpouring of good will and a new friendship pact with West Germany, flew to this high-tech stronghold today in search of expertise to advance his reforms.
The Soviet leader and his wife, Raisa, were greeted upon arrival at Echterdingen airport by Badem- Wuerttemberg state's popular governor, Lothar Spaeth, rumored to be a challenger to Chancellor Helmut Kohl in next year's federal elections.
Gorbachev was to tour a high- technology exhibit at Stuttgart University and meet with the political and industrial leaders of Baden-Wuerttemberg, one of West Germany's most prosperous states.
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