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Unlike their Western counterparts, Soviet leaders almost never meet with foreign journalists. One of the rare exceptions occurred in 1979, when Leonid Brezhnev received Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan for a formal interview. Last week, at the same long Kremlin table, aided by the same translator, the same three editors became the first Western newsmen to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev. What was new was the vigor and directness of the host. "Instead of delay, there was a definite aura of efficiency," said Cave. "The session...
...life. His reissued novels, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill, sold more than 10,000 copies each. Martin's current favorite is the late Wyndham Lewis, a novelist and critic whose work, & said T.S. Eliot, combined "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave man." Lewis also dabbled in art. To Poet Edith Sitwell, his pictures seemed "to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove...
...subject, Designing Pictorial Symbols, released last week by Watson-Guptill. (A previous book by Holmes, Designer's Guide to Creating Charts & Diagrams, was published last year.) Holmes' new book contains extensive research into the history of graphic symbols. "It goes back to picture writing, hobo signs, even cave paintings of the Southwest American Indians," he explains. "And, of course, flags, which helped armies recognize their own people in olden times...
...week until Congress finishes wrestling with the budget, have begun to deflate tax-reform proponents on Capitol Hill. "I'm losing my enthusiasm," says House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, whose backing is essential to tax reform. He is particularly put off by the Administration's cave-in to the oil lobby. "I told Jim Baker that the measure of the man will be where you go with energy. But that didn't penetrate...
...strike, assailants boarded a ferry off the northern coast of Sri Lanka, near Jaffna, and hacked 39 Tamils to death with axes, swords and knives. The Sri Lankan navy has denied accusations that it was involved in the slaughter; the same day, police surprised Tamil rebels hiding in a cave in the Eastern province and killed 20 guerrillas...