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...possibility of real prog-ress may hinge on the personal chemistry between the superpower leaders. Shultz has already taken to the affable but businesslike Shevardnadze, whom he finds far pleasanter to deal with than the last Soviet Foreign Minister, the glum and wily Andrei Gromyko. The two top diplomats should have ample opportunity to get to know each other better this week, since they are expected to spend a minimum of eight to ten hours together in New York and Washington. Shevardnadze is also scheduled to sit down with the President at a private meeting and a working lunch...
Weinberger defended the increases as necessary if the U.S. is to match the military might of the Soviet Union. The Reagan Administration, he said, "has made significant prog ress in restoring the credibility of our forces." Yet, he warned, the Soviets outspent the U.S. on defense by a hefty 40% during the past ten years. When asked about recent CIA and NATO reports indicating that Soviet military spending has been markedly less than many Western analysts had assumed, Weinberger answered, "It's not what the Soviets spend, but what they...
...fought presidential election graphically demonstrated. Yet the two Frances are linked by a common materialistic concern: the bourgeoisie is intent on keeping the life-style that money allows, while the poor are hoping for a larger share of the nation's growing wealth. Last week TIME Correspondent Paul Ress interviewed two French families, one headed by a struggling Norman truck driver, the other by a well-to-do Paris engineer. Ress's report...
What makes and sustains a restaurant like La Tour d'Argent? In an interview with TIME Correspondent Paul Ress, Terrail, the Gielgud of gastronomy, explained: "La Tour d'Argent is like a theater. I am the author of the play, an actor in it and the director. The words and gestures of every actor are carefully rehearsed. Every employee knows exactly how to walk, stop, bow. There is no obsequiousness. Nor is anyone allowed to take a fat tip from a guest in exchange for a 'good' table. I'd fire anyone who accepted...
...mankind's shifting perceptions of art and politics. His latest book, La Tête d'Obsi-dienne, is a bestseller in France, even though it is heavily philosophical. In it, he reflects on art and civilization-Eastern, Western, African, pre-Columbian, prehistoric. TIME Correspondent Paul Ress visited the author in the Paris suburb of Verrières-le-Buisson, where he lives in a villa surrounded by sweeping lawns and old cedars. Ress's report...