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After a month as President, George Bush had his first chance to make a splash on the world scene. But as he began a series of one-on-one meetings with some of the foreign leaders who went to Japan for the funeral of Emperor Hirohito, Bush suffered a slap from which not even the 6,800 miles between Washington and Tokyo could remove the sting. Disregarding fervent pleas by the President, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 11 to 9 along strict party lines to reject his nomination of former Senator John Tower to be Secretary of Defense...
...contrast between Moscow's splash and Washington's plodding was reinforced by the rhetoric on both sides. While Shevardnadze warned that the Middle East "could be climbing the unpredictable ladder of nuclear escalation," Secretary of State James Baker asserted in a television interview, "I don't think it's ((an area)) that if it incubates further, it blows up." Somewhat testily, Bush also applied the brakes: "I don't want to be stampeded by the fact that the Soviet Foreign Minister takes a trip to the Middle East." Though he praised Shevardnadze's trip as a "good thing," the President...
DUTCH LANDSCAPE. Dramatist Jon Robin Baitz, 26, who made a splash with The Film Society, echoes its South African setting in this autobiographical play, premiering at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...
DUTCH LANDSCAPE. Dramatist Jon Robin Baitz, 26, who made a splash with The Film Society, echoes its South African setting in this autobiographical work, premiering at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...
...Starting next Monday, he will appear, bereft of Vanna White and those fabulous prizes, as host of the Pat Sajak Show, CBS's first late-night talk program in 17 years. Arsenio Hall, who co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the movie Coming to America, made his own TV splash as Joan Rivers' boyishly enthusiastic replacement on the Fox network's Late Show. This week he will rejoin the late-night fray on a permanent basis as host of the Arsenio Hall Show, syndicated on 135 stations...