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Resplendent in a well-tailored blue pinstripe suit, diagonally striped tie and gleaming white shirt, Gorbachev ushered the interviewers into a large, spare third-floor office lined with cream-colored silk wall coverings. On the walls hung portraits of Marx and Lenin. The center of action was a table flanked by 18 chairs, covered with green baize and amply supplied with plates of sweet pirozhki (bite-size pastries), mineral water, lemon soda and cut- glass vases filled with colored pencils. Extensively briefed by his aides, Gorbachev had brought along typewritten notes ruled in red, blue and green. He also brought...
Along the way, Rolls-Royces have fallen into the hands of everyone from V.I. Lenin, who fitted his with caterpillar treads to brave the fierce Russian winters, to John Lennon, who chose a psychedelic yellow Phantom V. Lord Mountbatten bought a new one nearly every year. Indian maharajas ordered them gold-plated, Lawrence of Arabia covered his with armor. Field Marshal Montgomery's Rolls was the first private car to land with Allied forces on D day. Other owners have included Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and the Michael Jackson clan, who are said to own eight among them. Queen Elizabeth...
Hammer, whose numerous visits to Kremlin leaders began when he met with Lenin in 1921, also discussed a possible Reagan-Gorbachev summit during a 90- minute talk with the Soviet leader last week. Hammer said Gorbachev assured him that "there will be a meeting, just where and when has not been determined." But Gorbachev stressed that "to have a meeting we must meet about something -- something must be accomplished." Hammer said he had no doubt the two leaders would accomplish something when they finally did meet. "I think they'll like each other and be frank with each other...
Cant't find that rare Zen poem or Lenin's "Materialism and Empiro-Criticism?" Stay right in Harvard Square because specialty book stores are one of its specialties...
...scorn was clear in Ronald Reagan's voice. "The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug," he said of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, "did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. He made his choice long ago." The President was speaking last week at a fund raiser in Oklahoma City, but his real audience was members of Congress who were once again considering the resumption of aid to the contra rebels struggling against Ortega's Sandinista regime...