Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan. In Moscow on the Hudson, the Sequel, Gorbachev confers on Trump, who already lives like royalty, the head-of-state status he has been seeking since he publicly implied in 1985 that his premier dealmaking skills were what the strategic arms reduction talks were missing. For his part, Gorbachev gets a view of capitalism run amuck: Trump owns one of the city's biggest apartments (a $10 million, 20,000-sq.-ft. triplex), a palatial country house (Marjorie Merriweather Post's 118-room villa, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla.), a floating island for a yacht (once owned...
This week the hard part begins when Bush sits down with Gorbachev in a Coast Guard admiral's mansion on Governors Island, a site in New York harbor that was picked for security reasons. In proposing the meeting, Gorbachev said he wanted to dramatize his hope for continuity in Soviet-American relations. But no doubt he also wants to use the meeting to remind the world that his own foreign policy is up and running, while the U.S. is only just recovering from a distracting and unedifying presidential race...
Still, it is part of Gorbachev's genius that he not only gets credit for saying da -- after decades of nyets coming out of Moscow -- but he also has been able to turn the tables on the U.S., making American diplomacy seem reactive, unimaginative, even recalcitrant. Mired in "old thinking," the U.S. has been on the defensive at the U.N. of late, especially in the wake of Secretary of State George Shultz's refusal to grant a visa that would have permitted Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat to address the world body at its headquarters on the East River...
...part, Gorbachev has already traveled to Geneva, Reykjavik and Washington to meet Ronald Reagan and has made visits to Paris, London and New Delhi, as well as the "fraternal countries" of Eastern Europe. Next year he is expected to go back to France, visit West Germany for the first time and travel to Beijing for the first summit between Soviet and Chinese leaders since...
...Bhutto faces the hard part: governing a volatile country burdened by poverty, landlessness, ethnic rivalry and foreign debt. Three out of four Pakistanis are illiterate; unemployment is endemic. The economy is headed toward bankruptcy. Finally, Islamabad is the reluctant host to some 3 million refugees from the fighting in Afghanistan...