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From his Spaso House residence, the President tells Hugh Sidey of the wonder he felt in his remarkable odyssey to Red Square. -- Beneath the summit ceremony was a more subtle form of posturing. -- What lies behind the impasse on arms control. -- Nancy vs. Raisa, Round 4. -- Reagan gets a nyet, not from Gorbachev but from a Russian clergyman. See NATION...
...news last week taking place within taxi-hailing distance of Red Square? One might have thought so from the TV networks' saturation coverage of the Moscow summit. The main event, of course, was the face-to-face meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev. The most fascinating sideshow: Raisa and Nancy playing a catty game of one-upmanship. But there was more -- much more. Religion in the Soviet Union was suddenly a hot topic for TV reporters, as were Soviet rock music and the effect of glasnost on the Soviet press. There were tours of the Moscow subway...
...women would suggest that Raisa sets a realistic standard for the future. Quite the contrary. The hopes and dreams of most Soviet women in fact sound startlingly unemancipated to the Western ear. They rarely challenge the status quo, which entitles men to be waited on, first by their mothers, then by their wives and female employees. Nor do women question the concept that they should assume responsibility for all child-related matters, whether that involves family planning, child rearing or, if a marriage breaks up, child support. Says Tanya, a Moscow teacher who, like many of the women interviewed, requested...
...apparently, does Raisa Gorbachev. For all the difference between her glamorous life-style and the drudgery endured by most Soviet women, the First Lady expresses attitudes that reflect popular aspirations. In a letter to TIME, she strikes a series of chords that show her to be in tune with her female compatriots. Selflessness. Self-sacrifice. Keepers of the hearth and home. From such broad themes, it is only a small step to the primary preoccupation: coping with life as it is, rather than dreaming how it might be. What does a woman want...
...Raisa Gorbachev projects a fresh image of her country' s female ideal, but the reality is far less glamorous. Although equal under the law, women in the U. S. S. R. are in many respects second- class citizens. Now Mikhail Gorbachev' s reforms are giving rise to hopes for change. -- The Soviet First Lady turns heads abroad and keeps tongues wagging at home...