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During the Reagan years, it seemed as if the American and Soviet First Ladies had decided to continue the superpower rivalry by other means. Raisa Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan's every tea, luncheon and photo op was another skirmish in their mutual assured destruction pact, a frost-filled sideshow of haute-to- haute combat. Reagan complained that Gorbachev lectured her mercilessly on Marx and missiles, compared the White House to a museum, and was given to an imperious snapping of her fingers to summon the KGB to fetch a chair for her. After one White House dinner where Raisa used...
After 150 women at Wellesley College protested the First Lady's commencement invitation, Mrs. Bush cleverly invited Raisa Gorbachev to join her. Will the students risk international disdain by squawking again...
WASHINGTON--Raisa Gorbachev will join Barbara Bush in addressing the graduating class at Wellesley College, the White House announced yesterday...
...Raisa Gorbachev has accepted Mrs. Bush's invitation to accompany her to Wellesley" on June 1 during their husbands' summit meetings in Washington, the first lady's press office said. "Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Gorbachev will both deliver remarks to the graduating class...
...head, impassioned appeals for more emotion. The audience responded with a standing ovation, rhythmic clapping, showers of carnations. For his fourth encore, Rostropovich burst out with a rousing salute to his new homeland, John Philip Sousa's red, white and blue chestnut, Stars and Stripes Forever. The audience -- including Raisa Gorbachev -- gave one last standing ovation. At a reception afterward at the U.S. Ambassador's residence, Rostropovich greeted friends with kisses and bear hugs and vodka toasts. Asked how he had chosen Stars and Stripes Forever, he grinned and said, "From the heart...