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There is a dark side to instant communication, already understood by terrorists. In the short run, the cameras can be exploited for propaganda. In the long run, fortunately, the truth asserts itself. Reagan is so certain of the potential of global imagery that he has begun to ponder how best to cast this year's summit in the U.S. so that doubters all over the world can see Gorbachev on the U.S. stage...
Last week, as if by legerdemain, Reagan and Gorbachev leaped out of the tape cans simultaneously 5,000 miles apart, proclaiming 1986 a "year of peace." Early estimates suggest that as many as 60 million Americans may have seen Gorbachev in an ornate Kremlin chamber urge "saving up, bit by bit, the most precious capital there is--trust among nations and peoples." That's the lingo of capitalists, and it must have found its mark. There was only a smattering of complaints from viewers who preferred to see the Rose Parade or the soap All My Children. No such gripes...
...brief message drew some revealing responses from Moscow's people. Said Larissa, 27, a textile-factory administrator: "We have a Russian proverb that goes, 'After 40 years of life, you will start paying for your actions in your face.' The lines in [Reagan's] face reflected good--not the evil that we've been led to expect ... I really think that seeing him for three minutes is worth more than hearing about him for 30 years...
...charm of this place has always been that there's nothing to do here," muses Mel Haber, a Palm Springs innkeeper. "You could sit and read a book. There was no worry about being someplace else nearby, because nothing was happening there either." Nancy and Ronald Reagan did more than read books during their New Year's holiday stay last week at Sunnylands, the secluded retreat of Multimillionaire Walter Annenberg in Rancho Mirage outside Palm Springs. But if they had peered through the dense row of tamarisk trees that shield the 200-acre estate from the gaze of outsiders, they...
...Democratic budget, to be offered as an alternative to whatever Ronald Reagan proposes for fiscal 1987. It will contain some spending cuts, but also a higher corporate minimum tax and higher rates on upper-income individuals than are proposed in the current tax-reform bill. To reduce budget deficits, says Hart, "there will have to be additional revenue. Anybody who tells the truth in Washington will tell you that...