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...veteran of numerous summits. "These guys don't want to go into a session like this and then have to explain why it was a mistake." Gorbachev, although he appears to have consolidated his power and changed the nature of the way the plodding Kremlin bureaucracy operates, needed to impress the surviving gerontocrats back in Moscow, like Gromyko. "Those guys went to summits with Americans and managed to come home with treaties and agreements--at least with communiqués," says one Moscow-based observer of the Kremlin. "Gorbachev had to show he could do it too. He didn't want...
...green, then they took him out to play golf so he could get a tan, and next they escorted him to dinner with the CIA's director Bill Casey, whose fly was unbuttoned. Reagan doubled up with laughter. So did the free world, the people Moscow was trying to impress with that hilarious yarn...
...film, though, lies dormant in its own decency. Richard Attenborough's movies are like the best-behaved guests at a Swiss embassy reception; they never offend, never impress. So he will not force the narrative into revealing new corners, or visualize a number with anything as raw and tasteless as imagination. But discretion can take A Chorus Line only so far. Onstage the characters were small, vulnerable creatures on a big, bare stage; onscreen they must trumpet XXXXX aborted in midflight to concentrate on all the suffering wimpery of the plot. Zach (Michael Douglas), the genius director, must brood...
Another issue is the lack of imagination in the scenarios used for training guards at private plants. TIME is refraining from publishing DBT specifics on the weapons that nuclear plants must defend against, but the relatively small arsenal that the NRC gives the "attackers" in its drills doesn't impress Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican. The DBT attack force is barred from using many of the weapons detailed in the opening scenario of this story, but, says the Congressman, "if I were a terrorist, I'd feel more than free to use them." The agency doesn't require defenses...
Scherf continued to impress with a second-place finish at the three-way meet, while Bienvenu again led the Crimson men with a third-place finish...