Word: mikhail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev talked in Geneva through more complex lattices. They sat by the fire in the Château Fleur d'Eau and interpreted the world for each other through their distinctive mental grids--different societies, different interests, minds formed by different histories. Walter Lippmann wrote, "We are all captives of the pictures in our head--our belief that the world we experience is the world that really exists." Reagan explained America to Gorbachev. Gorbachev explained the Soviet Union to Reagan. Neither man was moved to defect as a result of the education. More useful than cross-cultural...
...vision of a safer world, and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party did not believe a word of it. As the two superpower leaders sat across from each other last week at the bargaining table in an elegant salon in Geneva, Ronald Reagan implored Mikhail Gorbachev to join him in his dream of "rendering nuclear weapons obsolete" with a space-based missile defense system. Coldly fixing Reagan in his gaze, Gorbachev would have none of it. "It's not convincing. It's emotional. It's a dream. Who can control it? Who can monitor...
Ronald Reagan's best friend is freedom. It did most of the work for him in Geneva. It was on his shoulder when he was walking Mikhail Gorbachev down toward the lake. It was tiptoeing around the room in the Château Fleur d'Eau and may even have whispered in Gorbachev...
...Mikhail Gorbachev had every opportunity to behave in the worst Soviet tradition, fuming and pounding like Nikita Khrushchev did to Ike and Kennedy. He did not. "This is not going to happen today, or tomorrow or in the future," Gorbachev said. Even when he was asked about Andrei Gromyko's characterization of him as a man with "iron teeth" behind a nice smile, Gorbachev declined the old role. "It hasn't yet been confirmed," he said. "As of now, I'm still using my own teeth." Reagan's friend freedom was surely watching, and Gorbachev felt...
Question: What do 3,614 journalists do in a picturesque Swiss city when a couple of bigwig visitors declare a news blackout? Answer: They pester government spokesmen about whether Ronald Reagan was secretly recording his talks with Mikhail Gorbachev (no) and how Nancy Reagan coped with the cold (long underwear). In this summit of images, the quintessential picture of the press may have been the pack that gathered around the President as he walked into a reception held by the Swiss government. "Have you agreed on anything?" they shouted. "Can't say," Reagan replied puckishly, throwing up his hands...