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...still there at 3:30 a.m., when Tommy J. Dillon, a cabdriver with Ambassador Brattle, comes in. "When the night's over, I come in here, and I have a cheeseburger and a coffee and milk, and then I go home," he says...
...President explained that preserving U.S. leverage over future developments in that largest of Third World communist nations meant avoiding the temptation to "isolate" its government. Bush was properly criticized not for the principle he was enunciating but for the gratuitous, maladroit way he applied it. Simply keeping his ambassador in Beijing should have sufficed...
...peninsula by only 5,000 over the next three years. This would include closing three U.S. air bases starting next year (leaving two). According to opinion polls, only a small minority of South Koreans want the U.S. to pull out completely. Contends Kim Kyung Won, former Ambassador to Washington: "The U.S. has two options: to remain involved and avoid a catastrophe, or to go home and then return when things fall apart...
...Soviet Union has been only too willing to help. For years Moscow has supplied Damascus with interceptors, attack bombers, surface- to-air missiles, tanks and artillery. But Moscow is now seeking to recast its role as troublemaker in the Middle East to that of peacemaker. In November the Soviet Ambassador to Syria, Alexander Zotov, suggested that Damascus abandon its dream of parity and instead embrace "reasonable defensive sufficiency." Zotov acknowledged that one motive for the decision to pursue a less aggressive approach was Syria's $15 billion military debt to Moscow...
...clapping, showers of carnations. For his fourth encore, Rostropovich burst out with a rousing salute to his new homeland, John Philip Sousa's red, white and blue chestnut, Stars and Stripes Forever. The audience -- including Raisa Gorbachev -- gave one last standing ovation. At a reception afterward at the U.S. Ambassador's residence, Rostropovich greeted friends with kisses and bear hugs and vodka toasts. Asked how he had chosen Stars and Stripes Forever, he grinned and said, "From the heart...