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...know you're really famous when you forget a world leader is coming to lunch. In a new memoir, Bono, the singer recounts how one Sunday morning his wife answered the door at their Dublin home to find Mikhail Gorbachev "standing with a giant-- I mean giant--teddy bear" for Bono's son. "It was a loose arrangement I'd completely forgotten." It seems saving the world while remaining a rock god can be distracting...
...superpower leader with an eye for a photo opportunity and a knack for communicating with the folks out there? A surprising answer could be found last week on Vremya, the Soviet nightly news program, when photographs of Mikhail Gorbachev suddenly filled the screen. There was the 54-year-old General Secretary of the Communist Party, strolling around Moscow, laughing heartily with workers, shaking hands. Now he was sharing a cup of tea in a young couple's apartment, now vigorously pressing the flesh in a factory, now touring a hospital, a classroom, even a supermarket. In all, Gorbachev spent about...
Viewers were first shown NBC's original 2½-minute profile of Mikhail Gorbachev, based largely on the new Soviet leader's euphoric reception in Britain last December: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saying she could do business with him; former Defense Minister Denis Healey finding Gorbachev like a "Western intellectual, a poet." Then came Dolan's version: ominous shots of Soviet troops parading and an overlong interview with Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, who believes that so long as there is fighting in Afghanistan, there should be no talking at Geneva. (Secretary of State George Shultz, who in committee...
...strong-willed career soldier who refused to tailor his views to prevailing political sentiment. Ogarkov's call to intensify the development of nonnuclear weaponry and his public hectoring of the U.S. had apparently put him at odds with the ruling Politburo's aging members. But Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been making his power felt, and last week, according to some reports in Moscow, he rehabilitated Ogarkov. The general, it was said, had been appointed First Deputy Defense Minister and commander in chief of the Warsaw Pact forces. That would make Ogarkov the No. 3 man in the Soviet...
Ahead lie big battles over the budget and tax reform and the much ballyhooed summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan would have seemed a whippersnapper next to Leonid Brezhnev or Yuri Andropov, but now the comparison may cut the other way. Reagan's visitor points out that the new man in the Kremlin is young and healthy. "Yes," grins the convalescing President, "but I'll try not to take advantage...