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The article reports that U.S. President Ronald Reagan has received unexpected support in his time of need, from Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and former Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. Baker has agreed to replace ousted Donald T. Regan as Chief of Staff. Meanwhile, just as the Iran-contra scandal has been tainting the Reagan Presidency, Gorbachev has hinted about an arms-control breakthrough on medium-range nuclear weapons.

Presents information on the summit of U.S. President George Bush and Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, held on September 9, 1990 in Helsinki, Finland. Information that the two leaders wrapped up their hastily arranged summit with proclamations of a "new world order"; Joint call for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; View that the "new partnership" between Washington and Moscow may take years to evolve into the stable political and economic entente that the two leaders envision; Problems faced by both leaders back home; View that even though Gorbachev's pressing need for hard currency and Western commercial links is bound to gradually expand U.S.-Soviet trade and investment, the leaders are still a long way from the full flowering of the U.S.-Soviet alliance that Helsinki promises; Concern of allies in Europe, that the U.S., with more than 100,000 troops in the gulf region, is too eager for combat. INSET: A new order of trouble..

Focuses on dealings of U.S. President George Bush with the Republicans. Efforts of Bush to appease the conservative movement by using White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, who has good credentials on the right, as a liaison; Information that Bush would not sign a trade agreement unless Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev cut a deal on Lithuanian independence.