set gDates = [[], [0, "The Times, Dec 17, 1984", "The Times, March 12, 1985", "The Sunday Times, March 17, 1985"], [0, "The Times, April 30, 1986", " ", "The Times, June 29, 1988", "The Sunday Times, Dec 11, 1988", 0, "The Times, April 10, 1989"], [0, "The Times, June 16, 1989", " ", " ", "The Sunday Times, Jan 20, 1991"], ["The Times, Jan 11, 1989", "The Times, Aug 20, 1991", " ", 0, "The Times, Dec 26, 1991"]]
set gName = getat(["Gorbachev"],1)
@[]#GORBACHEV CALLS FOR PEACE AND GOODWILL#GORBACHEV SWIFTLY ASSUMES POWER IN USSR#NEW BROOM SWEEPS INTO THE KREMLIN@[]#FEARS OF HIGH DEATH TOLL IN ATOM DISASTER##GORBACHEV OUTLINES SHAKE-UP#PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH##MINORITY PEOPLES PRESS FOR THEIR RIGHTS@[]#GORBACHEV SAYS WALL WILL COME DOWN###LAST DITCH STAND IN LITHUANIA@'COMMUNISTS WILL CONTEST SEATS IN CONGRESS'#GORBACHEV OUSTED AS HARDLINERS SEIZE POWER ###GORBACHEV GIVES UP THE FIGHT
Gorbachev was born into a peasant family in a village near Stavropol#Gorbachev's grandfather served nine years in Siberian labour camps under Stalin for allegedly hoarding grain#Gorbachev read law at Moscow State University, where he met his wife Raisa#Gorbachev could not afford a hotel for his honeymoon, so his room-mates moved out of his student lodging on his wedding night#The life expectancy of Soviet men was 67 under Khrushchev. It fell to 62 under Gorbachev, the first drop ever recorded in an industrial society in peacetime#900,000 acres of vineyards were ploughed under as part of his Gorbachev's clampdown on alcohol#Gorbachev was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1987, as 'Gorbymania' swept the West#The last Russian soldier to die in Afghanistan was an NCO called Igor Lyakhovich. He was killed on 7 February 1989#Gorbachev's spokesmen referred to his 'Sinatra doctrine', meaning the countries of eastern Europe were free to go 'My Way.' Communist parties fell from power in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania
