on march 11, 1985, mikhail gorbachev became general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union. he initiated a number of attempted reforms, setting in motion a series of events that would lead to the dissolution of the soviet union and the warsaw pact.
on june 5, on a sunny afternoon in st louis, joe wilson began his career as a street preacher. he stood on a corner near lafayette park, brandishing his beloved pocket bible, and urging passersby to take advantage of the lord’s infinite capacity for forgiveness. not a single person stoped to listen to him, to argue with him, to heckle him, or to encourage him. joe felt that he was being tested, and resolved to try again the next day, in some other spot.
daisy wilson broke up with rick chester, whose blustering and indecisive ways she had become sick of, and took up with cal mccoy, a boy her own age. she made a habit of calling cal’s attention to his own youth and inexperience, in contrast to the real men she had known before.
on november 19, ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev met for the first time in geneva, at the maison de saussure, a chateau rented by his highness the aga khan.
23. 1986
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