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...Nygaards and their fellow out-of-towners, from Omaha or Oslo or Osaka, account for nearly half of Broadway's ticket sales. They go in search of brand names. Although the season that ended June 2 offered 28 new shows and 21 holdovers (some admittedly short-lived), the perennial Big Three -- Cats, Phantom and Les Miz -- accounted for a quarter of the audience and almost a third of the revenues. On the road, where commercial theater reaps much more income than on Broadway, the Big Three were even more dominant: of $449 million in ticket sales, they commanded about...
...again, off-again course of reform in the U.S.S.R. is no more certain in the future. Gorbachev said as much in Oslo, advising the West that "it would be self-deluding" to expect the Soviet Union to copy its system. One of his closest advisers, Yevgeni Primakov, a member of the Soviet Union's Security Council, said in an interview that Moscow frowns on aid that is "tied to specific requirements...
...asked to address the summit of the Group of Seven after its formal sessions wind up on July 17. The U.S. and Britain, the host country this year, had been reluctant to invite Gorbachev because they did not want to raise his expectations for aid. As Gorbachev said in Oslo, he thinks he is "entitled to expect large-scale support" to ensure perestroika's success. But, said British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "I am sure Mr. Gorbachev is not expecting to find a check under the plate" at the London summit. Primakov and other Soviet officials say Gorbachev will...
...Oslo speech was a dress rehearsal for the two summits, Gorbachev might want to consider some fine tuning. Senior officials at the White House gave poor reviews to his approach -- "telling us we have to help save the system they've got or they're going to lose control of their nukes." That was ( something close to "rhetorical mugging," said one official, and another called it "attempted extortion." Gorbachev is in no position to threaten. He is more likely to get results from the West if he switches to specific pledges and actual performance...
...most personal level. So far, Bush has benefited from his role as a war President. He hopes to expunge forever the word wimp from the vocabulary of his critics. Gorbachev, by contrast, desperately needs to refurbish his credentials as a peacemaker. In December he could not even go to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize because of all his troubles at home. After troops from the Ministry of Interior slaughtered unarmed Lithuanians last month, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, who won the prize in 1975, said her late husband's name should be stricken from any list...