Expert panel will explore Soviet `thaw'

A Chicago Sun-Times Forum next month on "The Big Thaw - CommonSecurity and Common Sense" will focus on how profound changes in theSoviet Union are affecting Americans and the world.

Speakers at the daylong meeting May 6 will include journalistNicholas Daniloff, an expert on Soviet affairs, and Randall Forsberg,director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies.

John Marks, director of Search for Common Ground, and VladimirPechatnov, first secretary of the Soviet Embassy and representativeof the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, will open the forumwith a discussion of reform in the Soviet Union.

"It gives us great satisfaction to present …