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...said would create "genuine constituencies for peace." On the Soviet side, there has been what one State Department official terms "a marked change in attitude. They have taken an active, positive role. There is an altogether different attitude." Hermann also detects their keen desire to make the exchange agreement work. "They're bending over backwards," she says...
Within hours after the agreement was signed Nov. 21, American impresarios and museum directors were lining up for their share of cultural caviar. Robert Fitzpatrick, who is arranging Los Angeles' 1987 Arts Festival--which will be much like the one he set up for the 1984 Olympics--was already in Moscow. "I wanted to be the first in the door," he says. Fitzpatrick, whose taste runs to artistic frontiers, immediately placed a bid for the innovative Rustaveli Theater from the Georgian city of Tbilisi. "It's been a generation or two since we've seen any Soviet theater in this...
...relations for more than 60 years, was already inside the room. Several years ago, Hammer had seen a Soviet exhibition of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings in Switzerland. He asked the Minister of Culture if he could borrow it for the U.S. too, but nothing happened until after the summit agreement. Under a deal Hammer and Carter Brown worked out, the National Gallery has already sent 40 impressionist paintings to the U.S.S.R. (Hammer also has loaned the Soviets 127 paintings from his own collection, which includes many old masters.) In return, the Hermitage and Pushkin museums have sent the 41 paintings...
...potential, or so it seemed for a while, of producing the most sweeping arms control agreement in the history of the nuclear age. The most dramatic proposal was to slash in half the long-range nuclear missiles in the arsenals of the superpowers and eventually eliminate them altogether. Until a half-hour before the meeting broke up on Sunday evening, virtually all the pieces seemed to be in place. Yet in the end, the Iceland summit broke down over a single word: laboratory...
...session in the bubble with his advisers, followed by more discussions over a lunch of baked chicken, produced a revised set of talking points for the President to read at his afternoon session, ones that took into account Gorbachev's morning proposals and dwelt on the areas of potential agreement...