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...White House. Reagan emerges as a much more hands-on President than many of his aides--and their sometimes self-promoting memoirs--suggested. While recuperating from a gunshot wound in 1981, Reagan sat down in the White House solarium and drafted a four-page letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, appealing to the their common humanity to reduce tensions between the two countries. The letter is genuine, heartfelt--and sublimely idealistic. When he showed it to top aides, they blanched; Presidents did not send such personal appeals right off the bat, they said. Reagan and his aides went back...
...biggest advantage is to demonstrate the U.S. is not alone," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "If all the promises materialize, it will still be only one-fifth of the U.S. forces deployed there." America's needs are creating big opportunities for some unlikely allies. Take Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. A year ago, Washington might have viewed him as an apprentice member of the axis of evil. The U.S. believed he had approved the sale of a sophisticated air-defense system to Saddam, and he was publicly accused of ordering the kidnapping and murder of a crusading journalist. Washington gave...
...fashion world this year: in October, Mercury will try its hand at department stores. TsUM, a vestige of Russia's communist past, is one of two major stores that were owned and operated by the government (from 1917 to 1992 in TsUM's case). Mercury's owners, Leonid Friedland and Leonid Strunin, bought the controlling share of TsUM last November, and are in the process of giving the 377,000-sq.-ft. store a massive makeover and expanding it by more than 100,000 sq. ft. Verber is in charge of filling those revamped floors with goods, and industry insiders...
...politically motivated. The domestic opposition, which has already called Ilham's appointment a coup, is threatening mass demonstrations. Urbane and sinister, Aliyev rose through the ranks of the KGB and Soviet Communist Party hierarchy to the Politburo, where he was famous for spectacularly fulsome tributes to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. His career withered with the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev, but by 1993 he had maneuvered himself into the presidency of the newly independent Azerbaijan with a performance worthy of a Shakespearean villain. He first offered assistance to Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijan's populist but inexperienced President. He then distanced himself...
...Soviet leadership panicked. Three members of the Kremlin inner circle--Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, KGB chief Yuri Andropov and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov--feared that the Afghans would tilt toward the U.S. unless stern "measures" were taken. Late on the night of Dec. 12, ailing Communist Party chairman Leonid Brezhnev called the three to a secret meeting to hear their proposal. To keep the U.S. from installing a friendly regime, they said, Moscow must send in troops. The military operation, Brezhnev was told, would be over in three or four weeks. Two weeks later, the Soviets began an invasion that...