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That they failed in the brief time allowed was perhaps inevitable. That they tried, and agreed to keep on trying, was good news after six years of stonewalling and invective at long range. Equally important, the frank but earnest exchange between the two leaders may have served to shore up support back home, without which neither leader can deliver on any good intentions...
...lack of specifics, both sides pronounced themselves satisfied with the summit, and Reagan and Gorbachev toasted peace, their staffs and each other farewell with a glass of champagne. Before heading off to brief the heads of the Soviets' East bloc satellites, assembled in Prague, Gorbachev managed to get in a few parting propaganda points at an unusual 1½-hour press conference. He sternly warned that "all restraint will be blown to the winds" in nuclear competition unless the U.S. pulls back from its antimissile defense efforts...
...gray morning sky on Thursday, Reagan and Gorbachev broke their public silence and converged on the drab concrete bunker in Geneva that serves as an international conference center to tell the world what their private fireside summit had produced. Their report was modest. As Gorbachev put it in a brief, formal statement, the talks had failed at "solving of the most important problems concerning the arms race." He cautioned, "If we really want to succeed in something, then both sides are going to have to do an awful lot of work." Nonetheless, Reagan declared, U.S.-Soviet relationships had been given...
...early afternoon, and the smells of dirty diapers and grease mingle in the bleak Minneapolis apartment. The TV is tuned to All My Children, and Stephanie Charette, 17, has collapsed on the sofa. Her rest is brief. Above the babble of the actors' voices comes a piercing wail. Larissa, her three-week-old daughter, is hungry. In an adjacent bedroom, Joey, l l/2 years old and recovering from the flu, starts to stir. Stephanie, who is an American Indian and one of ten children herself, first became pregnant at 15. It was an "accident," she explains...
Back in China, Deng, frequently living underground began a long series of political and military assignments for the Communists, that carried him gradually, if not always smoothly, to higher ranks. His earliest misstep, resulting in a brief period out of favor, was to ally himself with a party faction that favored basing the drive to power on rural rather than urban insurrection, then a departure from orthodoxy. The leading advocate of that strategy was none other than Mao, who was working in another province at the time and therefore was spared the humiliation Deng suffered Deng was rehabilitated in time...