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Chebrikov: You mean Mr. T. sir Not him, luckily for us. But this is almost as bad. The chief of our east coast disinformation campaign. William F. Buckley has gone off, as they say in America, "the deep...
Chebrikov: Yes, sir the Krem de la Krem. It was he who helped whip up the anti-Soviet paranoia in 1980 to help the election of our friend, Ronald Reagan. It was he who helped fan the fires of extreme anti-communism over the '60s and '70s while the doves in the Democratic Party went soft on our efforts. Were it not for him, and his friends like George Will, we might now have to be talking to the Americans...
Last week both sides came close to laying their cards on the table. The decisive session occurred during a four-day visit to Peking by British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe. After seven hours of bargaining with his opposite number, Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian, Howe spent 90 minutes with Premier Zhao Ziyang in the Purple Light Pavilion, where Emperors once gave audiences to "barbarians" bringing tribute. Finally, the Foreign Secretary went on to the Great Hall of the People and spent an additional 40 minutes with Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, who has elevated the recovery...
...half years ago, the National Theater poached on Broadway turf with a vivid revival of Guys and Dolls that is still running in repertory. Less successful have been efforts by the company's director, Sir Peter Hall, to stage original, serious musical works. Last winter his collaboration with Composer Marvin Hamlisch on a dirge about Jean Seberg, in which the actress was seriously compared with Joan of Arc, fizzled at the stake. Now Sir Peter has devised an adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. As in Jean Seberg, masks abound, with the actors simulating Orwell...
...first sailed into Chesapeake Bay and 35 years before the Mayflower put in at Plymouth. In 1584 Walter Raleigh's agents landed here; the environs were named Virginia, after the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth, who chose the name. The next year Raleigh sent out the first colonizers, all men. Sir Richard Grenville was heavily involved; Sir Francis Drake paid a call. In 1587 a second group was dispatched, this one including women and children. They baptized an Indian named Manteo (Manteo is the name of the principal town today), the first successful act of Protestant proselytization in the New World...