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...again, reported Conte, Gorbachev urged America to deal with the world as it exists and not to attempt to reshape the Soviet Union. "If the evil empire exists," he said, "let it exist." He also repeated what he said he had told Mrs. Thatcher during his visit to Britain last December: "I have no hope of turning you into a Marxist," implying that his listeners had no hope of turning him into a non-Marxist...
...BRITAIN The "Unpleasant" Connection...
...painting at auction, surpassing the $10 million paid for J.M.W. Turner's Seascape: Folkestone last year. Mantegna worked on the deeply spiritual canvas between 1495 and 1505, when he was court painter for the worldly Gonzagas of Mantua. They would have appreciated the jealousies the sale has triggered. Britain may still seek to keep the painting in the country by refusing to grant an export license. And Daniel Wildenstein, an unsuccessful bidder, howled, "I am furious not to have the picture." The Marquess of Northampton, however, was said to be delighted by the price. But then, of course...
Viewers were first shown NBC's original 2½-minute profile of Mikhail Gorbachev, based largely on the new Soviet leader's euphoric reception in Britain last December: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saying she could do business with him; former Defense Minister Denis Healey finding Gorbachev like a "Western intellectual, a poet." Then came Dolan's version: ominous shots of Soviet troops parading and an overlong interview with Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, who believes that so long as there is fighting in Afghanistan, there should be no talking at Geneva. (Secretary of State George Shultz, who in committee...
Introduced in Britain about twelve years ago, Soda Stream has worked is way into 12% of homes there and into staggering 40% of those in Israel and Iceland. With that history, it may soon outgrow its five U.S. test markets--Boise, Charleston, Syracuse, Fort Wayne and Memphis--and take on the rest of the country as well. CINEMA GOURMET...