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...everyone from journalists to children. "It's still a police state," the President was heard to mutter. That night Reagan was expected to visit the Moscow apartment of Yuri and Tanya Zieman, refuseniks who have been denied permission to emigrate. He desisted after a Soviet official warned an American counterpart that such a visit would doom forever any chance that the Ziemans would...
...Washington meeting, the U.S. First Lady was taken aback by her Soviet counterpart's relentless questioning about historical and cultural minutiae during a tour of the White House. "I'm afraid I'm not much help," admitted Nancy, who was recovering from breast-cancer surgery and mourning the recent death of her mother. "Their face-off was extraordinary," said one who saw the pair in action. "They didn't seem to understand each other." As a result, Nancy decided to tour Leningrad this week only if Raisa did not come along. Instead, Mrs. Reagan's official escort will be Soviet...
...that the U.S. and the Soviet Union are morally -- or amorally -- equivalent. He focuses instead on three people who have paid a huge emotional price for success, only to realize that glory does not bring contentment: an American (Philip Casnoff) who has reached ! the world chess finals; his Soviet counterpart (David Carroll); and the American's adviser and erstwhile bedmate (Judy Kuhn), who falls in love with the Soviet. Theirs is not a charming Ninotchka-style romance: the CIA and the KGB hover on the periphery, exploiting the players and the game. Offsetting the gloom are a clear narrative drive...
...would know it from the looks of the chummy gathering in Vienna last week. Suddenly oil-country diplomats who only a few years ago would have been mortified to be seen cooperating with OPEC were showing up and making conciliatory gestures. A Chinese official was there, chatting with his counterpart from Mexico during a photo session. An oil-patch emissary from Texas mingled on the sidelines with ministers from Malaysia and other countries. Even an observer from the petrol-pumping province of Alberta, Canada, joined the unique assemblage...
Four years ago, Pratt & Whitney helped form a five-nation consortium to produce a competitor to the CFM56, but that effort has been plagued by setbacks. The partnership initially claimed that the new engine, called the V2500, would be 14% more fuel efficient than its GE counterpart, but that estimate has been scaled back to 9%. Moreover, the V2500 lost a major customer in February, when West Germany's Lufthansa, citing technical flaws, canceled an order for 40 engines and turned to the CFM56. Now Pratt & Whitney is staking its comeback on its new large engine, the PW4000, for which...