Raisa Gorbachev Coming to Summit
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WASHINGTON — Raisa Gorbachev will accompany her husband, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, to Washington for his summit meeting with President Reagan beginning Dec. 7, Administration officials said Friday.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said details of her itinerary were not available.
Raisa Gorbachev and First Lady Nancy Reagan went to Geneva when their husbands first met in 1985.
Raisa Gorbachev attended the U.S.-Soviet summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October, 1986, but Nancy Reagan did not.
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