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Lightweight, demagogue, buffoon, windbag. At best naive, at worst dangerous. Those were among the put-downs of the newly elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that came sluicing anonymously out of the U.S. Government on the eve of last week's summit. The name-calling stemmed in part from memories of Boris Yeltsin's visit to Washington in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: For He's a Jolly Fellow | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

Herzog, in particular, says he has taken another look at Harvard since his daughter Eve matriculated...

Author: By Jean Gauvin, | Title: They Never Left the Harvard Nest | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...interviews to American journalists. The first was to TIME in August 1985. "Do you think we're never going to meet again, so you are going to pile everything into one interview?" he joked after more than an hour of conversation. We did meet again. Last week, on the eve of his summit meeting with George Bush, Gorbachev invited Time Warner editor-in-chief Jason McManus and five TIME staff members to his Kremlin office for a tour d'horizon that lasted an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Jun 4 1990 | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...eve of his meeting with George Bush, the embattled Soviet President expresses hope for his country, anger at his critics, advice for foreign leaders and supreme confidence in himself. He clearly sees himself as the leader of a new Russian Revolution and a visionary for the end of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: June 4, 1990 | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Example: on the eve of the Nicaraguan election in February, "everyone here hoped the resistance would win, but only Sununu really believed it and said so," recalls Robert Gates, the deputy national security adviser. When intelligence experts predicted victory for the Sandinista government, Sununu argued that they must be missing something: Nicaraguans had to be fed up with their crashing economy, even though under such a repressive regime they would be afraid to tell pollsters the truth. During Bush's morning intelligence update on the Friday before the election, a CIA briefer again predicted a Sandinista victory, and Sununu puckishly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bad John Sununu | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

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