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...crucial respect, the Malta meeting did not represent the inauguration of a new world order at all but a holding action on behalf of the old one. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev have a shared interest in slowing down the rush of events, particularly the juggernaut of German reunification. Consummate Atlanticist that he is, Bush is sensitive to West European anxiety about the disproportionate strength of a single Germany...
Nancy Reagan struggled in her memoirs to explain why some people had objected to her "borrowing" designer dresses while she was First Lady. "One reason may be that some women aren't all that crazy about a woman who wears a size 4, and who seems to have no trouble staying slim," Mrs. Reagan wrote. The IRS has a more plausible explanation that has nothing to do with weight envy: the clothes and jewelry -- over $1 million worth -- may be considered taxable income...
...part of its required audit of the Reagans' taxes during their White House years, the IRS's Los Angeles field office is considering information provided by M. Chris Blazakis, former executive vice president for James Galanos, one of the designers who provided Mrs. Reagan dresses on a need-to-wear basis. Under the tax laws, a celebrity receives income for high-visibility use of a product in an amount equal to the value of that product. The defense that some of the dresses were loans, not gifts, or that they are no longer worth very much once they have been...
...would attain critical mass if they were fused. Rather, the X factor in the debate, largely unmentionable among statesmen but deeply felt among their constituents, concerns the crimes and punishment of the German nation. Many Europeans, including most Soviets, would prefer to let the next generation, or even the one after that, test fully the proposition that 70 years of German expansionism, culminating in the horrors of Hitler, was an aberration...
Gorbachev has his own reason for believing that one Germany is an idea whose time should not come again soon. Reunification is a euphemism for East Germany's voluntary annexation by West Germany. If the G.D.R. merges with the Federal Republic, the Soviet Union could see an ally not only leave the Warsaw Pact but defect to NATO. Estimates on how long Gorbachev would survive the wrath of his comrades range from 20 minutes to 48 hours...