R.C. Longworth

In a history-making meeting with President Mikhail Gorbachev, the major industrial nations agreed Wednesday to help bring the Soviet Union into the world economy, but they offered to do it...

Voters in the province of Croatia voted overwhelmingly Sunday to secede from Yugoslavia and set up their own independent state loosely ''allied'' to the country`s other five republics. The Croatian...

United Airlines and American Airlines moved closer Tuesday to winning permission from the British government to fly into London`s Heathrow Airport. The British government announced that it was scrapping its...

America`s European allies said Thursday they still want a Middle East peace conference, including settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian impasse. ''We will wish to return to the question of a peace...

The new prime minister of Britain is a tall, gray, deliberate ex-banker with perhaps the most exotic background of any leader in modern British political history. John Major, at 47,...

About this time last year, Eastern European governments were falling like dominoes. As the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe summit celebrated their collapse Monday, the contagion seemed to...

The three Baltic states, invited to sit in on the European summit as special guests, were pitched out at the last moment Monday when the Soviet Union objected. ''We assume...

Back in 1751, a Frenchman named Nicolas Desmarests had an idea. Wouldn`t it be grand, he said, to build a tunnel beneath the English Channel? The channel tunnel is an...

America`s European allies agreed Tuesday to send more arms to the Persian Gulf, to coordinate naval operations there and to ask the United Nations Security Council to declare a full...

Visitors from Prague report that cabbages and Marxist textbooks are on sale by the pound in shops near Charles University. A pound of cabbage costs more than a pound of...