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...street near the American ambassador's residence, where Ronald Reagan will be staying, has been repaved. Buildings opposite the Kremlin have been repainted in pastel colors. Even the grassy boulevard in front of a home Nancy Reagan may visit has been replanted. Like a latter-day Potemkin village, Moscow last week was being spruced up for next week's summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But the most noteworthy preparation for the superpower sit-down was in progress about 2,000 miles from the Kremlin on the dusty, sunbaked plateaus of northern Afghanistan. There a convoy...
...Administration officials there was speculation that Gorbachev would stir up a bit of excitement by announcing a unilateral withdrawal of some Soviet troops -- perhaps as many as 75,000 -- from Eastern Europe. Such a move would be consistent with the Soviets' vigorous courtship of Western Europe. As the Soviet Ambassador to West Germany, Yuli Kvitsinsky, put it last week, the Kremlin is eager to replace "the image of the enemy" with "the image of the friend...
...bullet-scarred buildings in the southern suburbs, any precipitous Syrian military action there could endanger them. Some Western diplomats held out hope that the growing Syrian pressure on Hizballah could provide a new opportunity for the release of some hostages. Exploring that chance, Lieut. General Vernon Walters, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, held talks with Assad in Damascus last week...
Others have been still less fortunate. For a year, Helms blocked the nomination of Richard N. Viets, a career foreign-service officer and former envoy to Jordan, as Ambassador to Portugal. Helms kept up questions about his personal finances until the nomination was withdrawn and Viets retired. "What we have here is a McCarthy of the '80s," says Viets. "You recognize you're in a cage with a viper." Helms bristles at the comparison with Joe McCarthy. "I think he was on to something," says he, "but he was careless with the facts...
...itself as the latest addition to a long, groaning shelf. Deaver. Haig. Stockman. Speakes. Regan. Even two Reagan children, Patti and Michael, have written slap-and-yell books about the First Family. And more are on the way. Helene von Damm, once Reagan's personal assistant and later Ambassador to Austria, has reportedly penned something less than a valentine to the First Family, and a new book by former White House Aide Martin Anderson describes Reagan as resembling a "Turkish pasha, passively letting his subjects serve...