R.C. Longworth

''In the end, the machinery of repression is more likely to vanish, not with war or revolution, but with a puff, or the voice of falling leaves.'' So wrote the...

For 40 years, the NATO allies have armed themselves against the day when a million Eastern Europeans would pour across the Iron Curtain in a mass invasion of West Germany....

A hundred paces off Red Square, a symbol of Soviet power, a small kiosk sells soft drinks in red, white and blue bottles with the word Pepsi-Cola spelled out in...

The leaders of the seven major industrialized nations for the first time Sunday recognized global warming as a ''serious threat'' to the planet and said they will pursue ''determined and...

President Bush and the leaders of six other major industrial nations took joint responsibility Saturday for helping the economic rebirth of Eastern Europe. This help will go first to Poland...

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Thursday that the Cold War is over and predicted that the Berlin Wall will one day come down. Gorbachev even said the reunification of Germany...

The West German government, caught in a tide of change in Europe, is asking the United States for patience and a bit of help. Polls indicate that the Gorbachev era...

On the day of his great discovery, Robin Birley was standing in mud at the bottom of a pit. As he leaned wearily against a wall, he toyed with a...

The leaders of the major industrialized nations bade farewell to President Reagan on Tuesday by rejecting his dream of an end to farm subsidies by the year 2000. The Toronto...

The major industrial powers Monday backed a U.S. plan for an international task force to combat drug trafficking. Meeting at the economic summit of industrialized nations, the leaders of the...