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...White House served up native corn bread, lobster, beef and raspberries. Gorbachev ate it all with gusto. Clean-plate man. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger eyed him across the State Dining Room and thought the Russian looked remarkably serene given his troubles back home. Other Soviet experts listened to Gorbachev's long toast of muted optimism, almost a plea for true friendship, and sensed that he was a little less confident than on his Washington visit in 1987. Showtime is over, and a political animal like Gorbachev has a hard time descending to the boiler room where the work...
...need a road map for the future," Gorbachev told one guest. Nice to say, muttered a businessman, but tough to draw up. As the cabernet sauvignon flowed, other Soviets at the dinner declared themselves "looking for answers" to almost everything...
Billy Graham, his long hair trimmed up, sat right beneath the toasting Gorbachev; as the Russian, an official atheist, talked on about "a humane and just world," the Rev. Mr. Graham looked positively saintly...
...Hollywood contingent, out of the cast of Driving Miss Daisy, was low key. Gorbachev gave a discreet glance at Morgan Freeman's diamond earring, Jessica Tandy's ponytail, and said nothing. Gorbachev surveyed Senate majority leader George Mitchell, pronounced him "looking good." Mitchell promptly hustled the Soviet boss to come around to his native Maine on the next visit. The U.S. trade czar, Carla Hills, sat at Gorbachev's right but offered only a beatific smile when asked if she had cut any deals over the mixed spring salad. In the White House, candlelight and the aura of history soften...
Trying to put the cold war behind them, Bush and Gorbachev move toward more regular -- and routine -- meetings. -- Bonn takes the lead in seeking a formula to help Moscow accept a unified Germany. -- The First Lady bonds with Raisa and wows them at Wellesley...