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...military band burst into lively music to greet the first of 60 armored personnel carriers rumbling into sight across the steel "Friendship Bridge" at the border. When the lead vehicle clattered past the last checkpoint and onto Soviet soil, the six young soldiers on board broke into ear-to-ear grins...
...Thelonious S. Monk, as well as new tunes that he has created himself. Even on these new melodies the influence of jazz greats such as John Coltrane are evident. In essence, he borrows from the old and expands on that to formulate songs that are delightful to the ear...
American business leaders, who are eager to get Moscow's ear on joint-venture ideas, think they have found just the way to do it. A group of companies led by Dwayne Andreas, chairman of the agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland, wants to buy the partly completed U.S. embassy in Moscow and convert it to office space for American companies doing deals there. Construction on the $22 million, eight-story facility was halted in 1985, when the U.S. discovered it was honeycombed with listening devices. If President Bush decides to pursue the proposal, he would have to persuade the Soviets...
...active and engaged. He phoned nearly two dozen foreign leaders, including Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, to thank them for their congratulatory notes. He gave Government employees two lectures about ethics -- something hardly anyone opposes -- implying that the store is now under stricter management. Bush also reversed Reagan's deaf-ear strategy for handling the press, inviting several reporters to dinner and asking others to the Oval Office on short notice for impromptu question-and-answer sessions. Just in case anyone missed the point about a fast start, the President even went jogging...
While Boskin seems assured of having Bush's ear, he will have to share it with two other, better-known members of the President's economic team: Richard Darman, the designated head of the Office of Management and Budget, and Nicholas Brady, the Treasury Secretary. Darman has already emerged as Bush's chief strategist for the coming slugfest with Congress over the budget deficit; Brady, a close friend of the President's, has staked out Wall Street reform and U.S. competitiveness as his turf. But Boskin may hold his own; he has a rapport with the President that Darman lacks...