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Again and again, reported Conte, Gorbachev urged America to deal with the world as it exists and not to attempt to reshape the Soviet Union. "If the evil empire exists," he said, "let it exist." He also repeated what he said he had told Mrs. Thatcher during his visit to Britain last December: "I have no hope of turning you into a Marxist," implying that his listeners had no hope of turning him into a non-Marxist...
...answers, while their guests, grateful for the exposure, grin back at their tormentors. This time guests responded with some asperity. Shultz warned his questioners about "daring" Reagan, "as you are doing here." Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, speaking from Israel, accused the press of creating tension that didn't exist between the U.S. and Israel. Diplomatic guests were invited to concede that the maneuvers were all "phony talk" and charades. The day the hostages' release was announced, ABC's Sam Donaldson tried to bait former Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger: "The terrorists won, right?" Many viewers must have cheered those...
...stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that has already ceased to exist. Alan Howard plays the inventor, Gemma Jones (PBS's Duchess of Duke Street) his wife, and Jenny Agutter their servant. If plans work for bringing the show to Broadway, they ought to be imported as well...
...Soviets not have it. But in the interests of avoiding nuclear coercion, we had to have sufficiency, which meant parity. And what parity meant for nuclear diplomacy was this: the U.S. had to develop a nuclear strategy to deal with the world as if nuclear weapons did not exist...
True enough, but it is difficult for an industry to exist when some of the owners are in it for fun and games and do not worry too much about making a profit. Admits Corey Busch, executive vice president of the ailing San Francisco Giants: "There's a breaking point coming. Baseball has to be run more as a business." The danger is that the executive boys of summer, with their checkbook recruiting and creative accounting, will make it impossible for professional sports to operate in the black. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York, with other bureaus