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Reagan's last stop in a 21-hour day was on Capitol Hill. Still buoyant, he arrived by helicopter from Andrews Air Force Base to a cheering, stomping joint session of Congress. "I can't claim we had a meeting of the minds on such fundamentals as ideology or national purpose, but we understand each other better," Reagan declared. "That's key to peace...
Nonetheless, Reagan's decision to disappear with Gorbachev for nearly an hour at the very outset came as a surprise to his advisers. As the two leaders remained behind closed doors on that first morning and their aides began a reverse countdown, ticking off how long they were exceeding their schedules, one American official came up to Shultz, nervously pointing at his watch and fretting that the Big Two were not keeping to the program. Retorted Shultz: "If you're dumb enough to go in there and break it up, you don't deserve to be employed here...
When they rejoined their advisers after an hour, the two sides were once again bedeviled by Star Wars. Hoping that he might use the enticement of large cuts in offensive weapons to extract a concession from Reagan on Star Wars, Gorbachev declared, "Something has to be done about SDI before we can get to the subject of reductions." Reagan was not buying. "SDI," he countered, "is long term enough that it ought not to be the thing to make strategic-missile reductions impossible now. Can we afford to let this moment go by when both of us are talking about...
...leaders decided to have their Foreign Ministers break away and assess the prospects for reaching any kind of joint agreement. While Reagan and Gorbachev whiled away the next hour and a half in a sitting room at the Soviet mission, where they sipped tea and Reagan cracked a few jokes,[*] Shultz and Shevardnadze sorted through the unresolved issues. At 5 p.m. they returned to their bosses. Determined to salvage an agreement, Gorbachev rattled off some rapid-fire instructions to his underlings and told them to go back to work and report later that evening. "That's what their...
...found in every major U.S. city where there is money and fat to burn. Trainers are to the narcissistic '80s what private fencing masters and dancing teachers were to an earlier time. These status symbols in sweat socks, always perfectly fit, fit perfectly. They signal affluence (private hour-long sessions at a studio or client's home run $50 to $150) without suggesting decadence. Los Angeles, a city that has always been littered with beautiful bodies, naturally boasts a megadose of tony body toners, 200 of them by one practitioner's estimate. Fitness consultants have joined agents, managers and publicists...