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Some hard-line factions are not interested in deeds or words. They are apparently convinced that Gorbachev should hunker down and wait until Reagan gallops off into the sunset. "Many in the leadership believe (a second summit) is not in the Soviet interest," says a Western diplomat. "Many here believe it is impossible to do business with Reagan...
...both teachers and neither gifted chess players, now oversee the children's careers full time. The girls have never attended conventional schools, and study a high school curriculum at home between practice games. On a typical day, they rise at midmorning, trot out for a game of soccer, then hunker over their chessboards until early afternoon, when teams of expert volunteers arrive to rehearse opening gambits and defense strategies until late in the evening...
...only Hispanics, of course, who are tempted to hunker down in an insular subculture. "In the summer," says Emmanuel Pratsinakis, a Greek Orthodox priest in Briarwood, Queens, "the air is full of the sound of children shouting in Greek. This community gives a feeling of security." "Polish Greenpoint is comfortable, familiar," says Ponanta, the typesetter. "You stay as long as you need to, then move out to Queens, to Manhattan." Assimilation still seems inexorable. "We want to be part of American culture," says Richard Ou of Flushing. The Russian New Yorkers may keep eating piroshki forever, but, says Sima Blokh...
...have done it in the past," she explains, "only because there was so much talk about it and it was kind of ridiculed." Campaigning last year seemed to convince her that she can venture out alone without making costly faux pas. She has learned to resist her tendency to hunker down and hide. These days, she says jauntily, "Ronnie always complains that when I go places and come back I never tell him anything--that he has to hear it from other people...
...view of history is very dim. John Kennedy back in 1961 loaded up the Marines and primed the Navy's airplanes and sent the Seventh Fleet into the South China Sea to hunker near Laos and impress the Communist Pathet Lao, which was gobbling up the country with Moscow's encouragement. The Marines never got into combat, but the display of force helped bring some allies to our side and finally produce a vague standoff in the battle...