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...address, and I wasn't far wrong," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Inocencio Arias. After lying low for much of the prevoting skirmishes, González pulled out all the stops in the last few days. He used the government's special access to the single, state-controlled television network to hammer home the importance of the referendum and the reasons for voting...
Fitzpatrick may have wanted to be first in the door, but Armand Hammer, 87, chairman of Occidental Petroleum and a promoter of Soviet-American relations for more than 60 years, was already inside the room. Several years ago, Hammer had seen a Soviet exhibition of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings in Switzerland. He asked the Minister of Culture if he could borrow it for the U.S. too, but nothing happened until after the summit agreement. Under a deal Hammer and Carter Brown worked out, the National Gallery has already sent 40 impressionist paintings to the U.S.S.R. (Hammer also has loaned...
...behind Hammer and Fitzpatrick came a parade of other Americans, hoping to sign up everything from the Bolshoi Ballet to dancing bears--so long as they growled in Russian. "Neither the American nor the Soviet government was prepared for the onslaught of interest," says Hermann. "Everyone with two nickels to rub together wants to be the next Sol Hurok." Many of those would-be impresarios may be disappointed, however, and it is harder to make a profit from touring companies today. Says Lee Lament, president of ICM Artists, which once presented many of the Soviet troupes: "With the rising cost...
...producing more nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, a meeting between South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and U.S. President George W. Bush, despite declarations of unity, ended with the two allies unable to agree, as usual, whether to coax North Korean despot Kim Jong Il with aid and trade or hammer him with tougher economic sanctions...
...We’re all something of foot soldiers, working to advance the president’s agenda,” Downer says. “We’re trying to really hammer home the way it impacts our generation...