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Several days later, the Kremlin proffered a sudden and surprising olive branch. The wartime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, W. Averell Harriman, met for 80 minutes with Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov and quoted him as saying that "the Soviet Union is ready and interested in searching for joint initiatives, which would make the present situation easier." There was no way of knowing whether Andropov's conciliatory tone was prompted by Williamsburg, or whether it was even genuine. Some diplomatic sources were cynical about Andropov's arms, suggesting that he was merely firing another salvo in his "peace offensive...
...more intriguing question was whether Reagan and Andropov might have their own summit. The Harriman visit and the State Department's response touched off speculation that such a meeting might occur. But U.S. officials cautioned that the Harriman-Andropov session was not all sweetness and light. Indeed, it started out on a decidedly tense note, with Andropov lambasting the Reagan Administration for its aggressive attitude toward Communism, its arms control policies and other areas of bilateral tension. But Andropov was friendlier in an exchange with Harriman about the Soviet translator. Said Harriman, who had met the translator with previous...
...Soviet community of immigrants." Harvard does, however, have a comparatively large foreign community because dissidents tend to emigrate to large cities such as New York or Boston, although "there's no rhyme or reason to which university gets people," according to Jonathan Sanders, assistant director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute for Russian Research...
Scores of famous names flutter effortlessly from Selznick's pages: Anita Loos, Irving Thalberg, Sam Goldwyn, Janet Gaynor, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo and Uncle William, known at the office as Mr. Hearst. Banker-Politician Averell Harriman coached her in bridge and croquet, and Howard Hughes wanted her to be his "woman friend" because, as Go-Between Gary Grant suggested, she was a "tested product...
Wall Street also has been deciding that now is the right time to buy. Energy stocks have been among the best performers since fears of an all-out price war began ebbing last month. Says Merz Peters, an energy analyst for Brown Bros., Harriman: "Everybody's portfolio was underrepresented in oils." And for investors with a taste for a different speculation, futures contracts in crude oil began trading last month on the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. The two exchanges hope that the new contracts, which cover oil for future delivery, will...