Stanford, California -- Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ended his seven-day trip to the United States last week with a two-hour visit to Stanford University, where he declared the cold war over and praised Stanford scientists for helping to curb the arms race.
In turn, Donald Kennedy, Stanford’s president, lauded Mr. Gorbachev as “the architect of a great world transformation,” and George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State and now a professor at Stanford, called him a “man of action” in building a new world order.
“We need you,” Mr. Shultz said after Mr. Gorbachev’s speech to some 1,700 faculty members, administrators, students, and visitors in the Stanford Memorial Auditorium.
During a stop in Minnesota, the Soviet President endorsed plans for an advanced research institute there that would bring together scientists from the United States, the Soviet Union, and other nations. The institute is to be called the Gorbachev Maxwell Institute of Technology. Robert Maxwell, who heads an international publishing empire, pledged $50-million to the institute if Minnesota Gov. Rudy Perpich and business leaders in the state could raise a matching $50-million. The idea for the institute was first proposed by Mr. Perpich.
