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...beginning of the year, the Administration was counting on the summit to help advance its German policy. The meeting , predicted one presidential adviser, was going to be "Christmas in spring," with Bush in the role of Santa Claus. Gorbachev would go home in triumph, laden with so many honors and agreements that his countrymen would barely notice he had let the U.S. have its way on Germany...
...accuracy of her items? So what if in her column she dispenses advice to Ivana and can't keep straight if she is friend or journalist? So what if Suzy claims to have attended a party when she did not? So what if in the nitwit pantheon of gossip Claus Von Bulow, Sydney Biddle Barrows and Jessica Hahn are celebrated in the same tones as people of genuine accomplishment...
There was bewhiskered Ivan Boesky staring out from behind bars: Santa Claus as perp. There were the elaborate designs of Michael Milken and Robert Campeau, rasping apart like Velcro...
...leading foreign policy analyst concluded bluntly, "We should help those in the Soviet Union who are doing the right thing." But is Gorbachev really a convert to those ideals we consider the "right things" -- political pluralism, individual rights and a free-market economy? Whoever believes that will believe Santa Claus is bringing my grandchildren the $150 Nintendo sets I am buying them for Christmas...
...line Santa is not the only Mr. Claus to carry a Salvation Army bell. In snowless downtown Boston, there are thin Santas and fat Santas and bell-ringers in blue jeans and sweats...