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Today the Lance flap is long forgotten and Genscher's renegade view of the Soviets, once derided by his allies as being "soft" on communism, has proved visionary. Among the Foreign Minister's rewards has been a vastly improved relationship with his U.S. counterpart, James Baker. Though the two men sparred testily over the Lance affair, they now act like old pals. Both are workaholics, lawyers by training, brainy and pragmatic; when together, they cut through diplomatic blather with hyperspeed. "Genscher loves to play with Baker," says a German diplomat. "He understands how Baker's mind works -- so much like...
...only adds to such worries. Dudelitz, 39, who has 16 years of teaching experience, receives a net monthly income of 1,100 ostmarks, or about $655 at the 1-to-1 conversion rate that went into effect July 1. That is roughly a third of what a West German counterpart is paid. "We will be earning even less when rent subsidies disappear and pension contributions rise," she says...
...Several years later, the KGB station in Ottawa leaked some phony documents on CIA letterhead purporting to show that U.S. agents were secretly aiding the Quebec Liberation Front and in various other ways trying to destabilize the central government. An American spook took his Soviet counterpart to lunch and said, "You really want to play this game? Your country may someday have secession problems a lot bigger than Canada...
...things have changed. The Broadway season just past far outshone its London counterpart. The writing was better, the staging was better, the acting was better. Moreover, American writers such as David Henry Hwang, David Mamet and August Wilson had far more impact in London than Britons did on the Main Stem. And Broadway's musical hits were homegrown, while most London musicals of consequence featured American creators, recycled American songs, American topics, or all three, and were generally mediocre to boot. Fortunately, three British stalwarts -- a writer, a director and an actor -- have mounted superb tragicomedies that give the season...
...richer ironies of Soviet political life that Gorbachev initially served as Yeltsin's patron and mentor. During the 1970s, Yeltsin was party secretary of Sverdlovsk (pop. 1.4 million), 850 miles east of Moscow, and thus came to know Gorbachev, his counterpart in the city of Stavropol. When Gorbachev became party secretary in charge of agriculture in 1978, the friendship blossomed; whenever the two met, Yeltsin later related, "we would embrace warmly." In 1985 Gorbachev tapped him to be the clean broom needed to sweep out the corruption in the Moscow city party organization. Yeltsin handled the task with such verve...