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...also given the Soviets an incentive to return to the bargaining table and offer serious proposals in the hope of tightening the bonds of arms control around SDI itself. If there is a summit in November or December, Reagan the Star Warrior might be able to extract from Mikhail Gorbachev an agreement-in-principle for a trade-off between existing Soviet offensive forces and the American SDI while it is still only a gleam in the President's eye. Since there are reasons to question whether SDI is scientifically feasible or strategically wise, restricting the program to research in exchange...
...disaster, rumors have swirled throughout the country: that Chernobyl survivors could spread radiation like a contagious disease; that victims have been placed in lead coffins and buried in unusually deep graves; that vodka and red wine are effective antidotes to radiation. During a visit to Budapest, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told Hungarian factory workers, ''Chernobyl has warned us once again: man has set in operation a really fantastic force that must be strictly controlled.'' It was a telling message that surely reverberated last week through the lifeless silence of Pripyat...
...former Kirov dancer: ''God didn't make a single mistake with this girl.'' ALESSANDRA FERRI. No one would ever picture Ferri as a drowsing Oriental beauty. She seems made for motion: wraith-thin, bonelessly supple, with enormous dark eyes that radiate intensity. It is easy to see why Mikhail Baryshnikov's search for a partner stopped with her. ''Her special power comes from her ability to concentrate with such intensity that the audience can directly share her imagination,'' says Baryshnikov. ''It is like listening in on someone's most candid truths about themselves.'' There were no other dancers in Ferri...
...press conference last week, the President was guarded about the Soviet moves. But he seemed to go out of his way to sound conciliatory. In answer to a question about a recent speech, Reagan said that he must have "goofed someplace" if it appeared that he had linked Mikhail Gorbachev with Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat and Muammar Gaddafi. The President twice described Gorbachev as "the first Soviet leader to my knowledge that has ever voluntarily spoken of reducing and eliminating nuclear weapons." (Not quite: Moscow's long-standing position has been that it would someday like to see the elimination...
...aide. "Why me?" Seven years later, West German leftists plotted to hurl pudding-filled balloons at Hubert Humphrey during his trip to the city; the police managed to disrupt the plan, but Humphrey was booed and heckled everywhere he went. And while history remembers Ronald Reagan's challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Wall, it's usually forgotten that Reagan's visit to West Berlin occasioned the worst rioting the city had seen since the 1960s, prompting officials to shut down the city's subway system for the only time in its history...