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NATION: Behind the closed doors, scenes of warmth, candor and realism 16 If nothing else, the summit for a moment brought the collision of the two most powerful forces in history down to the human scale of two men coming in from the mountain cold to talk over differences by...
Ideally, a summit should produce some formal, leather-bound outcome, like the SALT I treaty that Richard Nixon brought home from his Moscow meeting with Leonid Brezhnev. A summit represents high history, the great encounter above the tree line. It sometimes excites almost sacramental expectations. Geneva produced neither great treaties...
And yet it was an extraordinary encounter--the most powerful forces in human history suddenly condensed, embodied in two men coming in out of the mountain cold and sitting down by the fire to talk. What mattered, for now, was less the treaties not signed than the conversation begun. The...
Instead of the customary caricature portraying him as an American cowboy brandishing nuclear missiles, the front page of the Communist Party daily Pravda carried a shot of Reagan chatting informally with Gorbachev in front of a blazing fire. The Geneva encounter also provided Reagan's debut on Soviet television, which...
It's beginning to look a lot like a corporate Christmas. Just take a peek at Santa's list. For Jeff, a C.P.A. who dreams of the open road, St. Nick is bringing a Harley-Davidson beach towel. Steve, a devoted cola drinker, is getting a sweatshirt emblazoned with the...