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...justify a Washington summit. Unless the U.S. was willing to talk about ways to limit Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative program, he would prefer to pass up Thanksgiving at the ranch. Barely a year after he had done much the same in Reykjavik, Gorbachev pulled off a bait-and-switch scheme at Reagan's expense, luring him into high- level, high-visibility diplomacy only to shock and infuriate the Administration at the last minute by holding summitry hostage to American concessions on Star Wars...
...machine, which marries Tiny Tim on the Carson show and deploys Itzhak Perlman on The Hollywood Squares, a little humility is in order. Bands of sociologists are already in deep retreat trying to explain the ineffable Vanna White. Pity them and the mavens at work on Oliver North. When bait-and-tackle shops on the Maryland shore hang GO OLLIE signs, it is safer to concede that some things, like the Hula-Hoop and the Gabor sisters, are not explicable...
Loud voices in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill quickly shifted the focus of attention from alleged spying at the current U.S. embassy to the already well-known Soviet bugging of the still unfinished new embassy chancery. Why bait the public with the Marine case, then switch to the new facility? Because, says a top Reagan aide, both cases "are part and parcel of the same problem -- a breakdown, or lack of existence, of counterintelligence." Perhaps. But no one has suggested that Marine guards had anything to do with the bugging of the new embassy...
Cabey has told a newspaper columnist the four were about to rob Goetz because he "looked like easy bait...
...classy hotel he's ever stayed in. "I called room service and asked for a sandwich, and they sent me two prostitutes," he said. At least they didn't send him sushi, a trendy dish whose appeal Maher doesn't quite understand: "Sushi? It's not food--it's bait...