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...name of the Siberian Rasputin, 53, has been famous for more than a decade because of his sensitive depiction of the ravages of industrialization at the expense of the countryside, its villages and churches. Writers and poets have a special standing in the Soviet Union, and Raisa Gorbachev is reportedly one of his fans. He rails against the decline of "human values," and as an outspoken supporter of the nascent Green environmental movement, he is active in the campaign to save the purity of Lake Baikal. In light of his anti-Western, nationalist and anti-Semitic views, his appointment...
...Novelist Valentin Rasputin strikes many as an odd choice to serve on Mikhail Gorbachev's new advisory presidential council. Rasputin's writings and speeches are often chauvinistically Russian and, according to some, anti-Semitic. But officials in Moscow think they have discovered the reason for Rasputin's elevated post. Raisa Gorbachev is a big fan of his books. A question now making the Kremlin rounds: Does every Czarina need her Rasputin...
...curling up with the latest murder mystery later on. When feigned interest fails, she employs another tactic. Says Rebecca Matlock, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union: "Barbara knows how to change the subject when Mrs. Gorbachev begins, you know, talking like she does." For her part, Raisa helped things along by not kicking the First Dog when Millie plopped down on her foot at Thursday's White House tea, and made appropriate Russian cooing sounds instead. Of such courtesies is detente made. The official word after the opening meeting was that Raisa and Millie "had bonded...
...breezy Bush presidency provided the right atmosphere for Gorbachev to tone down her glitzy image, mollifying the folks back home waiting in bread lines wearing RAISA NYET buttons on their nondesigner lapels. Instead of the three wardrobe changes a day of her 1987 visit, Gorbachev adopted a dare-to- be-frumpy look for her round of appearances at the Library of Congress, the Capital Children's Museum and the Lincoln bedroom. Although she could not resist adding glitter to Thursday's embassy lunch with such celebrities as Jane Fonda and Dizzy Gillespie -- so famous for being famous they need...
Trying to put the cold war behind them, Bush and Gorbachev move toward more regular -- and routine -- meetings. -- Bonn takes the lead in seeking a formula to help Moscow accept a unified Germany. -- The First Lady bonds with Raisa and wows them at Wellesley...