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...looks as cool at 74 as he used to in center field. But the Yankee Clipper knows the value of celebrity and the attraction of having the proof in writing. In the greatest reversal since Serutan, DiMaggio brought a baseball to a White House dinner last year, when Mikhail Gorbachev was visiting President Reagan, and acquired their autographs for free. "Reagan's is very precise," says DiMaggio, who once had to fight a souvenir collector at his bank to retrieve a check made out by Joe and endorsed by his then wife Marilyn Monroe. "Gorbachev signed...
...annual meeting of the 47-member Asian Development Bank last week in the Great Hall of the People, within earshot of Tiananmen Square, officials wanted to avoid any unpleasantness. And the protest came just days before the scheduled May 15-18 summit meeting between Chinese officials and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...months since George Bush's Inauguration, the world has been waiting to discover what attitude the new U.S. Administration would adopt toward the extraordinary events in the Soviet Union. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze have continued their odysseys through world capitals, proclaiming the promise of perestroika and the end of ideological conflict. All the while, the White House has turned away questions -- whether from allies, Soviets or the American press -- with the explanation that a sweeping policy review was under...
What seemed like an easy victory for U.S. policy now appears to call for a more carefully calibrated approach. In February, while Moscow's troop pullout was in progress, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was looking to salvage some political face. He wrote to President Bush asking for U.S. help in setting up an international conference to end the fighting and create a broad-based coalition government that would include the Kabul Communists. Confident that the rebels' star was in the ascendant, the White House refused the request. But disappointment over the guerrillas' military failure has led policymakers to debate...
American allies are likely to be disappointed with the message Secretary of State James Baker will carry to Moscow this week: The Bush Administration would rather hang tough and see what happens than top Moscow's diplomatic initiatives. -- Meet Eduard Shevardnadze, the master builder of Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy whose ice-melting smile hides the glint of iron teeth...