The World - News from Oct. 26, 1988
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Visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded a series of agreements in Moscow to revive stagnating bilateral trade and to put a West German into orbit aboard the Mir space station at an unspecified date. The two leaders signed seven agreements covering nuclear power and design, culture, ecology and farming. Kohl met with civil rights activist Andrei D. Sakharov, laid a wreath at the Soviet tomb of the unknown soldier and visited a cemetery containing the graves of 596 German soldiers taken prisoner during World War II.
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