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...speech. Radio Personality Paul Harvey pulls down $25,000. Jeane Kirkpatrick doubled her fee to $20,000 after she became a Republican. Seer Jeane Dixon can conjure up $7,000 but donates all fees to charity. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger goes for $18,000; his former boss, Richard Nixon, could command $25,000 but speaks for free. "The fees," says Speaker Agent Carleton Sedgeley, "simply follow the laws of supply and demand...
...myself at risk. We couldn't let a strike happen." The aura of miracle worker that enveloped Ueberroth when he turned a huge profit on the 1984 Summer Olympics may have dazzled some owners. "His presence hung over the negotiations like the ghost of Banquo," declared Baltimore Orioles Boss Edward Bennett Williams...
...that is acceptable to both Reagan and the Soviet Union. The man charged with shaping a consensus, National Security Adviser McFarlane, has great expertise in arms control and the will to move quarreling partisans, but he has failed to sway his chief client. Chief of Staff Regan has his boss's ear, but little substantive experience in geopolitics. No-nonsense Secretary of State Shultz is the workhorse of U.S. diplomacy, but he does not always seem entirely sure to what end. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger knows precisely what he wants--a massive military buildup--and making deals with...
...Leonid Brezhnev's time. Unlike Brezhnev and some of Gorbachev's other predecessors, however, the General Secretary is unlikely to consult his advisers in public. During meetings with foreign dignitaries, in his August interview with the editors of TIME, and in October's visit to France, the new Soviet boss has allowed the men at his side only an occasional whispered suggestion...
...briefing papers, underlined with red, blue, yellow and green felt-tip markers. As Gorbachev was answering a question on Israel during his Paris press conference, one adviser half rose, cupped a hand to his ear to hear what was said, then sat down with a satisfied look when the boss had finished. The Soviet leader will presumably use his staff in a similar way at the summit, referring to their briefing papers for guidance but summarizing the Soviet position succinctly and accurately...