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They came by the hundreds last week, creating limo-lock on Georgetown's elegant N Street. They gossiped under the Renoir and the Van Gogh in Pamela Harriman's salon. They sipped their Chablis in tribute to one of this age's truly great Democrats, Clark Clifford, and his new book, Counsel to the President, the story of a half-century of political grandeur. But one prominent Democrat, looking beyond the evening's scheduled gaiety, said, "We are witnessing the greatest eclipse of a political party in this country in our history...
...cities involved in the six-Cities study were Watertown, Mass,; Kingston-Harriman, Tenn.; St. Louis, Missouri; Steubenville, Ohio; Portage, Wis. and Topeka, Kansas...
...responsible, does that mean he has lost control to the conservatives in the army and the KGB and is being forced to front for their demands for order? U.S. analysts doubt that. "Gorbachev is a hostage to his own policy," says Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute. "Things may be going further than he wants, but he charted the course...
...result of this newfound desire for worldly experience, Fisher followed up his Harvard Law School education in 1946 by going to Paris with Averell Harriman, a top State Department official, to work on the Marshall Plan. Fisher says he was selected for the mission, along with former Yale president Kingman Brewster, because he had "pretty good grades...
...dance between left and right is astounding," says the Harriman Institute's Robert Legvold. "Gorbachev postpones many decisions, but when there are hard choices to be made, he opts squarely for change. As centrists often do, he is losing popularity, but across the ideological spectrum, he is deemed indispensable...