Meeting Those People across the Pole Only a very tiny percentage of the people who would die in a nuclear war have ever met anybody from the other side, or even imagined such a meeting. Seems a little strange. The good news is that through the initiative of individual citizens and private groups thousands of Americans have recently been going to the Soviet Union as "citizen diplomats." Increasingly, they are also able to welcome Soviet citizens here in the U.S. The encounters between these grassroots diplomats have been challenging, surprising, satisfying, even heart-warming. Stereotypes are being replaced by direct knowledge, and political enmity by personal connections. The process is just starting, pointing a way toward normal relations. Every meeting helps to create a new context for official negotiations between the governments. As citizen diplomats like to say, "If the people will lead, the leaders will follow." Through stories, background articles, and practical information, these publications tell how you can become involved —as a traveler, as a participant in your own community, or as a viewer of "spacebridges" or user of other electronic links between the two societies. Citizen Exchange with the Soviet Union (a guide in magazine format) $4.95 Citizen Summitry: Keeping the Peace When It Matter? Too Much to be Left to Politicians (a 396 page paperback edited by Don Carlson and Craig Comstock) $11.95 Order both for $14.95 (postpaid) from: Ark Communications Institute, 47 Lafayette Circle, Suite 282A Lafayette, CA 94549 FOOD FAIR APRIL 8-18 Fremont Northwest Beaverton Corbett 4000 S.W. 117th 5909 S.W. Corbett 3449 N.E. Fremont Open 7 days 9-9 Open 7 days 9-8 Open 7 days 9-8 BANDS Showcasing work by award winning designers. We Get a good night’s sleep with a buckwheat hull pillow that supports your neck and relieves body tension. Head for Northwest Futon for a little natural rest. Futon, furniture, bedding, lighting and more. Head rest 400 SW 2nd 242-0057 Hours: Mon-Fri 10-6/Th 10-7/Sat 10-5 M o n 7 M Wl E FUTON b\ Studio 311 D IS C O V E R THE F IN E ART OF A M E R IC A N C RA FT The Real Mother Goose AShop Washington Square S.W. 9th &Yamhill and Gallery 620-2243 223-9510 2 Clinton St. Quarterly—Spring, 1987
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