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Reagan's last stop in a 21-hour day was on Capitol Hill. Still buoyant, he arrived by helicopter from Andrews Air Force Base to a cheering, stomping joint session of Congress. "I can't claim we had a meeting of the minds on such fundamentals as ideology or national purpose, but we understand each other better," Reagan declared. "That's key to peace...
...mounting expectation. Failure risks disappointing, and perhaps losing, domestic and international constituencies. "The pressure to succeed is enormous," says William Hyland, the editor of Foreign Affairs and, as a former aide to Henry Kissinger, the veteran of numerous summits. "These guys don't want to go into a session like this and then have to explain why it was a mistake." Gorbachev, although he appears to have consolidated his power and changed the nature of the way the plodding Kremlin bureaucracy operates, needed to impress the surviving gerontocrats back in Moscow, like Gromyko. "Those guys went to summits with Americans...
...afternoon session at the American headquarters, the two leaders took on the most essential, and contentious, issue of the summit: arms control. The debate that ensued was intense and riveting...
...Lomeiko soon discovered that an open press policy can bring embarrassing questions. During a Sunday session in the cavernous briefing room, Irina Grivnina, a Soviet dissident who had been allowed to emigrate only last month, started yelling about political prisoners. The next day, when Swiss officials told Grivnina to leave as Lomeiko began his briefing, she angrily refused, pointing out her credentials as a reporter for the weekly Dutch magazine Elseviers. Grivnina's shouts attracted a stampede of reporters. Lomeiko, fuming about "people who use this for their own purposes," could barely be heard above the din. "It's either...
Richard Simons, a Colorado psychoanalyst and writer on masochism who attended the session, agreed with Spitzer. "It's not scientifically valid to throw out a category merely because it might be misused," he said. Otherwise, Simons seemed to embrace the entire feminist position. Psychiatrists confronting battered women should not sit around pondering categories, he said. They should get out of their chairs and get the woman some physical protection. "The first thing you do is protect life and limb. A psychiatrist has that responsibility like anyone else." But in the current climate, could a psychiatrist find that a battered woman...