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Four months later Shevardnadze was named Foreign Minister and Gorbachev's partner in perestroika. The appointment struck the world's chanceries as odd -- the Georgian was a provincial politician with no experience in world affairs -- and as an indication that Gorbachev intended to be his own Foreign Minister. That assessment was wrong. In reality, the two planned together to tame the country's adventurist foreign policy and make it the servant of domestic needs...
Thatcher's new home is a five-bedroom, neo-Georgian house in the suburb of Dulwich, about four miles from central London. Thatcher's daughter Carol predicts that her mother "will suffer decompression" out of office. When, for example, Carol reminded her parent that she had not set foot in a supermarket in nearly 12 years, Thatcher replied, "Of course I have. I have opened enough of them...
...after Thatcher announced she was stepping down, public attention was already focusing on the government to come. Even as Britons mourned or celebrated the end of her reign, Thatcher was making plans to move out of 10 Downing Street and into a five-bedroom Georgian-style house in the leafy south London suburb of Dulwich. She will continue to represent her constituency of Finchley, in northwest London, and will undoubtedly continue to berate the opposition in the House of Commons, albeit from the back benches. That politics is a cruel business, Thatcher understood. She neither gave nor expected quarter...
...suggested that the rebellious Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, at least, would not be allowed to go as easily as that; they would still have to negotiate with Moscow over property issues. And they might not be the only ones. Akaky Asatiani, a leader of the Georgian parliament, said flatly last week that Georgia "will not sign the federal treaty," and Mircha Snegur, president of Moldavia, cast doubt on whether his republic would either...
Lars wasn't the only Middle Georgian returning to Massachusetts. Heat Wave Coach Lou Saban, a legendary motivator who has coached three pro teams, seven college programs and served as New York Yankees president under George Steinbrenner, landed his first pro job in 1960 with the then-Boston Patriots, an expansion team...