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							<title><![CDATA[President Gorbachev's Last Phone Call]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Blanton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; Less than two hours before announcing his resignation as president of the Soviet Union on Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail S. Gorbachev placed a telephone call to President George H. W. Bush, who was celebrating Christmas with his grandchildren at Camp David.]]></description>
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