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...crowning moment at last week's Moscow meeting was the ceremonial toast between George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. The chosen potable: Summit Cuvee, a California sparkling wine made especially for the occasion. The bubbly blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir was made by the Iron Horse Vineyards in Sonoma County, Calif., just west of -- you guessed it -- the Russian River. Gary Walters, chief usher at the White House, serving as First Wine Taster, made the selection. "The Soviets enjoy a little more sugar in their sparkling wines," says Walters. So the White House asked the winery to sweeten three cases...
...cold war. But within hours after Air Force One touched down at Sheremetyevo Airport, it was clear that the last vestiges of East-West tension had dissolved long before George Bush's arrival. In what both sides agreed was the friendliest U.S.-Soviet summit ever, Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev laughed and joked their way through the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which will reduce the two superpowers' nuclear arsenals, and a series of other agreements covering everything from agriculture to the arts. Bush agreed to try to provide Moscow with additional economic and technical aid. He also...
...Bush motorcade arrived in Kiev, the streets were crowded with nationalist spectators, many of them waving the blue-and-yellow flag of the once independent Ukrainian state. But he made it clear that the U.S. would not intervene in the disputes between the republics and Gorbachev's central government. "We will not try to pick winners and losers in political competitions between republics, or between republics and the center," said the President. "((That)) is your business, not the business...
...overcome Shamir's qualms, Bush and Gorbachev staged a diplomatic squeeze play. Baker holed up in Moscow and spent hours on the telephone trying to bring Shamir around. When Bush and Gorbachev announced on Wednesday -- before any public announcement from Shamir -- that they would issue invitations to an October peace conference, it seemed like a classic bit of diplomatic arm twisting directed at the recalcitrant Israelis. Bush said he was sending Baker to Jerusalem immediately "to obtain Israel's reply...
Courageous moves by these entertainment giants, no doubt protecting an unsuspecting public from . . . what exactly? The contumely heaped upon Pee-wee -- while George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Moscow to reduce nuclear arsenals, and while severed human heads and scattered skeletal remains were being traced to a mass murderer in Milwaukee -- can be seen as a trifle excessive. If Reubens is guilty of anything, it is of making a very bad career move. Solitary sexual acts performed in public, even in a darkened movie theater showing fare expressly designed to stimulate sexual acts, are a legal...