Should Mikhail Gorbachev have been invited to address a joint session of Congress? Absolutely not.
Your editorial ”Glasnost on Capitol Hill” totally misses the point. The issue is not whether Americans are smart enough to see through Soviet propaganda; it is whether the honor of addressing a joint session of Congress should be bestowed on a human rights criminal like Gorbachev.
Are there so few propaganda outlets in this country that he has to address a joint session to get across his views? The Tribune has forgotten this is the man who has murdered 2 million Afghanis and even issued a ”kill” order for foreign journalists caught in that beleaguered country.
Nixon`s ”thoughtful” talk on Soviet TV in 1972 and the detente that followed created a false sense of security in the West which the Soviets used to expand their empire and engage in an unprecedented military build-up.
