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...breezy Bush presidency provided the right atmosphere for Gorbachev to tone down her glitzy image, mollifying the folks back home waiting in bread lines wearing RAISA NYET buttons on their nondesigner lapels. Instead of the three wardrobe changes a day of her 1987 visit, Gorbachev adopted a dare-to- be-frumpy look for her round of appearances at the Library of Congress, the Capital Children's Museum and the Lincoln bedroom. Although she could not resist adding glitter to Thursday's embassy lunch with such celebrities as Jane Fonda and Dizzy Gillespie -- so famous for being famous they need...
Like a married couple facing tough times, Bush and Gorbachev seem determined to make the relationship work despite their difficulties. After wrestling for two days with intractable problems, the two Presidents simply set their differences aside and exchanged signatures on a variety of halfway measures. When their negotiators got hung up once again on the details of arms reduction, Bush and Gorbachev instead signed a joint statement to slash the numbers of strategic nuclear warheads, and they inked formal pacts to eliminate most of their arsenals of chemical arms and to verify limits on nuclear testing. Those, however, were...
This time nobody could pretend that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were determining the future of the world. That is, frankly, beyond their control. There was a sense in Washington of the leaders' looking over their shoulders -- to Bonn, where Helmut Kohl is marching Germany toward unification; to Moscow, where Boris Yeltsin is boosting his own brand of perestroika; even to the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, where economists track America's federal deficit as it slips further out of control. Both Presidents face more bothersome troubles at home than they have with each other...
Trade unexpectedly turned out to be the touchiest subject of all. In Moscow last month, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze told Secretary of State James Baker that the Kremlin understood American reluctance to sign a comprehensive trade deal while Moscow continues its economic embargo of Lithuania. But Gorbachev last week would not let the subject drop. In a sharp exchange with congressional leaders Friday morning, he expressed particular irritation that the U.S. still denies most-favored-nation trade status to the U.S.S.R., though it has just renewed that status for China despite last year's massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators...
...private talks with Bush, Gorbachev's tone was more pleading -- a sharp change from December's Malta meeting. As soon as the two leaders sat down Thursday morning, the Soviet President gave a gloomy appraisal of his economic woes. He told Bush he realized a trade deal would deliver little immediate practical relief, but added that he needed the political symbolism of bringing home some bacon. Bush reiterated that the U.S.S.R. must first pass a law guaranteeing free emigration, and even then it would be "extremely difficult" for both the Administration and the Senate to approve a trade deal unless...