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...state for a fact that there will be one. But I do expect the differences to be narrowed as a result of my discussions with President Bush. I hope the character of the relationship I've developed with the President will permit us to move forward rather than backward in our discussions. When two partners meet, each side has its own interests to look after, and the other side must take that into account. The main thing is to find as much harmony as possible between the two sides' positions. If, in any area of Soviet foreign policy...
...Moving backward down the carpeted corridor, a squad of television cameramen scythed through onlookers who were craning their necks for a better look. Flanking the cameras and electric cables came the men with microphones and blazing lights. In the middle of it all strode the politician they were focusing on, trailing a small group of aides. Had the scene been set in the U.S. Capitol, it would have been run-of-the-mill stuff. But this was the Kremlin, and the man doing the politicking was President Mikhail Gorbachev. As he moved along, he buttonholed Deputies of the new parliament...
...Continent's poorest and most backward country, Albania is a wedge of Balkan territory on the southern Adriatic coast between Yugoslavia and Greece. An agrarian land where workers earn an average wage of $85 a month, the country is as rigid economically as it is politically. Albania even broke relations with the Soviet Union in 1961 and China in 1978 after those powers experimented with early liberalization programs. Since he succeeded the late dictator Enver Hohxa in 1985, President Ramiz Alia, 65, has only gradually modified the most egregious of his predecessor's restrictive policies...
...course, most people recognize that no group should be punished because of the bigotry of others. Still, many hold the pessimistic view that the military is so conservative and backward that it will necessarily be one of the last hold-outs in the battle against homophobia...
...spins out a whodunit that may or may not be solved by the end of the show's seven-week run. (For a European video version of the pilot, Lynch shot an alternate ending that seems to solve the crime. In it, the actors walk and speak their lines backward, and the film is reversed.) But the two-hour movie, which spans the 24-hour period after discovery of the body, stands superbly on its own. More than a dozen characters are introduced -- all of them connected, each dwelling in a private world -- from the widowed owner of the town...