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...column is due tonight. Meanwhile, more facts crowd the study door like extras on a movie set, peer in, cry, "Use me!" Guatemala, Mr. T, a new novel by Bellow; Dow Jones goes down, Columbia goes up. Say hey, Willie McCovey, you made it too. Nice hat, Mrs. Gorbachev. Hold it, please. I have to think. Didn't I read something by Octavio Paz that fits in here? Or was it Pia Zadora? Where is my authoritative, I've-studied-this-for-years lead sentence? Please, God, let me discover an apt quotation from someone other than Samuel Johnson...
Before he went to Geneva last year to meet with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan broadcast a brief message on television and radio to the people of the world. In the Voice of America studio during the preparations, a slight, bearded figure hovered at the elbow of the President...
...taking a hotel room far from the presidential party so he could sort out his thoughts in cool independence. But he still had the rare privilege of drifting in and out of the summit events. Morris delighted in what he calls "the whole ballet of power" played out when Gorbachev arrived for the first meeting. Reagan came down the steps without his overcoat. Gorbachev drove up in hat and coat. Reagan was utterly at ease. Gorbachev was tentative. Reagan, the host, gently maneuvered his guest. Morris sensed that Reagan had taken charge...
...press conference last week. The new Prime Minister insists that he will be a persistent critic of the arms race and a strong supporter of the Third World. For starters, Carlsson will travel to the Soviet Union in April to attend already scheduled meetings with Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Kremlin got some real heat last week from its Arab allies for not showing more support for Gaddafi," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. To correct that impression perhaps, Pravda printed an interview with the maverick Libyan last week, in which he gave lavish thanks to Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev for his support. Nevertheless, the Soviets remain wary about attaching themselves too closely to a Libyan regime that is mercurial at best. Moscow zestfully pounced on the opportunity to denounce Washington's "barbaric act of terrorism," adding that the U.S. had lost not one plane in the raid, as claimed...