Word: cielo
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...George Bush uses him so little in state affairs. Reagan is utterly pleased with almost anything that comes his way -- from being mobbed by admirers in the lobby of Las Vegas' new Mirage Hotel, as he was the other day, to his morning horseback ride at his Rancho del Cielo in the Santa Ynez Mountains...
...does, Reagan will undoubtedly take his visitor to Rancho del Cielo, the President's ranch in the mountains above Santa Barbara, perhaps for Thanksgiving. Reagan would love to show Gorbachev the sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean and inland valleys. (One problem: Can the Soviet leader ride a horse, and would he be willing to try? Nobody in the U.S. professes to know.) Reagan has mused in the past about showing a Soviet leader middle-class American homes, schools, churches, possibly a high-tech factory; the President appears to think the picture of capitalist prosperity would impress even so dedicated...
...critters has evolved more or less spontaneously. Two of the most senior Reagan pets are dogs that date back to his days as an ex-Governor and a President-in-waitin g. Millie, a Labrador- setter mix, came in the '70s with Lee Clearwater, a caretaker of Rancho del Cielo who died last year; next Taka, a purebred Husky, was given to the Reagans by friends. During the 1980 presidential race, an admiring Wisconsin couple presented the Reagans with Victory, a golden retriever. (Later that year they gave Victory's brother to George and Barbara Bush during the G.O.P. Convention...
Reagan has addressed veterans, farmers, astronauts, high schools and more backwater fundamentalist meetings than Rev. Ernest Angely. But will he talk to America's oldest center of higher education? Is it really impossible for Reagan to schedule a day for us in between visits to Camp David and Rancho Cielo...
WHILE RONALD REAGAN was chuckling this weekend at Rancho Cielo over his successful political maneuvers both in the Senate and on the borders of Nicaragua, there were surely some equally gleeful chuckles deep in the heart of the Evil Empire...