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...country, a secessionist movement in the north and a collapsing economy that heralds a winter of fuel shortages and food riots. For all these differences -- and because of them -- George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev both stand to gain from a feet-up-on-the-table, let's-get-to-know-each-other chat. In a head-snapping acceleration of their relationship, the two leaders announced last week that they would visit each other aboard ships moored in the Mediterranean Sea Dec. 2 and 3 for a summ . . . oops, pardon, meeting...
...potential for discord. Bush has approached this new step in U.S.-Soviet relations with his characteristic prudence. In a time of dynamic social and political upheaval in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself, Bush said, "I just didn't want to miss something, something that I might get better firsthand from Mr. Gorbachev." The Soviet President has been less patient. In late October, Gorbachev said privately that for months he had been exasperated with the Bush Administration's slow and uncertain response to the shifts in Kremlin policy. He was beginning to suspect, he said, that Washington believed...
...leaders. The eleven months that George Bush has required before he would come face-to-face with Mikhail Gorbachev is more time than it took for Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev to meet and overcome their mutual suspicion. The 1985 Geneva summit between Gorbachev and Reagan proved that a get-together need not end with formal agreements to produce important results. In their staterooms off Malta, the U.S. and Soviet Presidents may finally launch a partnership to deal with the difficult, dangerous and exhilarating challenges that confront them...
...star can't sit still, and the audience can't get enough of him. On the guest couch, rap groups rub elbows with Hollywood stars. Johnny Carson's newest challenger has grabbed a young audience by dusting off the stodgy talk format and holding a weeknightly party. Be there or be square...
There is no set agenda for next month's get-together aboard U.S. and Soviet warships in the Mediterranean, but much is at stake, including Eastern Europe's future. -- Emigrants from California have Seattle shouting, "Have a nice day -- somewhere else...