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Despite the similarities between the two glamorous, strong-willed and controversial First Ladies, Raisa and Nancy Reagan did not hit it off during their first meeting at the 1985 Geneva summit. Mrs. Reagan considered Mrs. Gorbachev a humorless and dogmatic Marxist ideologue. Friction between the two increased last year, when Raisa showed up at the Reykjavik summit after Nancy had announced she would be staying in Washington...
...stage has been set for a cool but correct meeting between the two women in Washington this week. Last month Mrs. Reagan invited Mrs. Gorbachev to a White House tea at 3:30 on Wednesday. After a two-week delay, Raisa finally accepted, then said she would prefer to visit Nancy in the morning so that she could attend an afternoon meeting between Gorbachev and U.S. journalists. Tea? Before noon? Nancy was incensed. Nevertheless, she agreed to meet with Raisa at 11:30 Wednesday morning. "It's a coffee now," sniffed a White House official, "and a tour...
Making matters worse, Raisa is scheduled to attend a Thursday gathering at the residence of Diplomat Averell Harriman's widow Pamela. Mrs. Harriman, an active Democrat, has invited such Reagan critics as the Washington Post's Katharine Graham and Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski. Commented a Reagan aide on the Nancy-Raisa relationship: "They're not exactly soul mates...
Among Brokaw's closing human-interest questions was "Do you go home in the evening and discuss with ((wife Raisa)) national policies, political difficulties and so on in this country?" "We discuss everything." "Including Soviet affairs at the highest level?" "I think I have answered your question in toto." That was the only exchange that was truncated when the interview was broadcast to the Soviet people...
...whole nation sized up Gorbachev and Reagan last week on television. This week the two meet to sign a historic arms treaty. -- A look at the evolution of the zero option, from hard- line proposal to reality. -- Raisa and Nancy will get together for coffee, but they won' t like it. -- Everyone seems to support the agreement -- except the Republican right wing. See NATION...