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...deeply conservative state. He balanced his budgets, refused to throw money at problems and avoided fights he couldn't win. He pressed the legislature to improve health care for the poor, while holding taxes down and deregulating business. Says House Majority Whip Jane Hull, a conservative Republican and frequent Babbitt opponent, "I guess he did drag us kicking and screaming into the 20th century...
Nonetheless, he seems to have a streak of what can only be described as anti-Americanism. Perhaps the first American to have an extended conversation with him was John Chrystal, chairman of Bankers Trust of Des Moines and a frequent traveler to the Soviet Union, who called on Gorbachev in 1981. Says Chrystal: "He does believe, never having been here, that the U.S. has abject poverty and quite a lot of it. My impression is that he thinks there are whole towns that are just sort of destitute." Eugene Whelan, the former Canadian Agriculture Minister who was later Gorbachev...
...South Korea is a pragmatic man. As a young military officer, he wore a small brown identification tag with his name inscribed in English as NO. It was the most common pronunciation of his surname. Quickly, however, the unpropitious English meaning of no got to him. Using a less frequent but acceptable pronunciation, No Tae Woo became Roh Tae Woo. Said Roh: "N-o is negative, and I am a positive person. So I prefer R-o-h." He will need that kind of flexibility to lead his country on the still bumpy path toward democracy...
Nitze, who had become special adviser to Shultz and Reagan on arms control, had never liked the zero option, but he now did his best to sell it to U.S. allies in Europe. During one of his frequent missions, European leaders told Nitze that they had invested considerable political capital in accepting the American missiles. They had withstood domestic opposition by arguing that the missiles were necessary to assure "coupling" between America's nuclear forces and its defense of NATO. It would be awkward to justify the removal of all the U.S. missiles, even as part of a deal that...
...clothing, like his manner, is no- nonsense informal and definitely not extravagant. Jewish by birth but not religious, Sondheim became no more so through his brush with death. Of the idea of an afterlife, he says, "I never think about it." But after years of brooding intensity and frequent suspicion of the larger world, he seems to have achieved a midlife serenity. Formerly a renowned partygiver, Sondheim is a homebody these days, and fretted aloud that his house was too run down -- there are cracks in the walls from subsidence, and the upholstery is in shreds from his cats...