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...President kept his resentment under control. He was suspicious of Ortega's posturing but not then aware that the dictator planned to end the truce with the contras. "It was literally a photo opportunity," Bush said. Sure enough, Ortega's photographer rushed his shots to news organizations; the White House refused to release its own pictures. "We greeted. We shook hands. He had a firm handshake. He looked me in the eye. He did not lock on or anything like that. He was not defiant. We'd met before...
...Ortega's orchestration of their meeting and his stunning announcement about ending the Nicaraguan cease-fire brought a flare of public anger from Bush the following day. "It was instantly, gratuitously offensive, and I felt I had to draw the line," said Bush last week. "Ortega abused the hospitality of the other nations. He showed himself as a small person...
Intrigued as well as irritated, Bush kept up his character study throughout the two-day summit in San Jose. The night that El Salvador's Alfredo Cristiani criticized Ortega publicly, Bush looked down the table to his right at the tilted chin, the solemn profile of the Nicaraguan President. "He just stared off into the distant horizon," Bush recalled. "There was in the room a sense of total outrage at what Ortega had done...
Back at the White House, Bush examined the pictures his photographers had made of Ortega. In shot after shot, Bush noted, was that same fixed stare beyond the people around him, a lonely man both at home and abroad. "Now, we keep pushing him," Bush said. "We don't let him off the hook of holding free elections. He is trapped as the current of democracy goes against...
...thousands more East Germans flee to the West, the new President genuflects to perestroika in Moscow and his underlings call mass meetings to hear complaints. But events are bringing the two Germanys closer together. -- Ortega scuttles a cease-fire with Nicaragua's contras. -- A vibrant new middle class stirs in India...