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There was one unambiguously negative response. As he prepared to leave for Malta, Mikhail Gorbachev named no names but warned against "clumsy behavior or provocative statements." Faced with the paradox of how to hold on to the Soviet Union's most strategically and economically valuable ally now that all the...
Jerusalem has been in the middle of a game of hot potato ever since. The main obstacle: how to assemble a Palestinian delegation that gives Arafat a voice but allows Israel to pretend that the P.L.O. is not party to negotiations. So far, no formula has been found. While the...
The Blue X Conspiracy contains reminders of how the current climate of U.S.-Soviet relations affects decision making, whether in a mock crisis or a real one. Such a game would probably not have been played in the depths of the cold war, but if it had, there would probably...
Even in the tensest moments, both sides are sensitive to how the world views the confrontation. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who plays the White House chief of staff, leaves at one point to hold a press conference. On the Moscow end, Yevgeni Velikhov, vice...
Quiet defiance. Like father, like daughter. Self-possessed, imperturbable, smoothly articulate, Wattleton is often hard to read. But not to Trish Arredondo, the director of an Indiana Planned Parenthood affiliate. One day, after a speech at a fund raiser in Munster, Ind., Wattleton stretched out her legs in the back...