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Passengers on the lower decks were not given a choice, and so, while almost all the women in first class escaped, nearly half of those in third class drowned. There was also an element of happenstance. Boat No. 1, which could have held 40 people, departed with only twelve. While...
The occasion was plainly significant, both journalistically and diplomatically. "Even though he is far more subtle and forthcoming than other Soviet leaders, much of what Gorbachev said was self-serving and one-sided," Grunwald noted. "One had to suppress the instinct to argue with him. Nevertheless, the interview was exciting...
The occasion has become an annual tradition that marks the end of summer: a ranch outing in California given by the President for members of his staff, local Republicans and the traveling press corps. Looking serene and relaxed in his cowboy duds, Ronald Reagan chitchatted his way through a crowd...
On his glad-handing personal style: "It is nothing new in my practice . . . I did that kind of thing in Stavropol," the southern Russian region where Gorbachev got his start. "Maybe on occasion when I have been traveling in the country, the press has given it more prominence . . . But also...
To fight back, the Reagan Administration has upped the budget for USIA by 85%, to $795 million in 1985, and launched a six-year $1.3 billion modernization program for the VOA, four of whose transmitters were so old that they had been used by the Nazis in World War II...