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...would have none of that. Convinced that Gorbachev will make concession after concession if the U.S. sits tight, Baker deliberately carried no significant new ideas to Moscow last week for the most important superpower meeting since the new Administration took office. Instead, he arrived determined to "put a Bush stamp" on U.S.-Soviet relations by swinging the spotlight toward regional issues and away from arms control altogether...
...superb cast, including Jane Alexander and Harris Yulin as the parents and Bethel Leslie as the dying aunt -- all established stars who delicately avoid star turns -- and the exceptional Clayton Barclay Jones and Angela Goethals as the children. Heidi Landesman's brilliantly simple sets fill a postage-stamp stage with bits of cloth to create a mountain, a river, a campsite and a twinkling night sky, capturing not physical essence but distilled recollection. The entire event is ethereal yet spellbinding...
...from becoming unbearably tedious is its sharp wit. There are moments in the book when the readers laugh aloud: a seven-year-old who chainsmokes steals the change he is supposed to be counting; a lisping grade-schooler is cured after doctors find "a button, a staple, a postage stamp and two buffalo nickels" in his stomach; a heated school election eventually degenerates into a food riot...
...significance of the new Congress of People's Deputies is not yet certain. The 1,500 candidates who were up for election on March 26 will be joined by 750 selected by public organizations ranging from the Communist Party to the Society of Stamp Collectors. They will select 544 of their number for a new Supreme Soviet. This new legislature, of which Gorbachev is expected to be president, will jostle for authority with the Communist Party's hierarchy, of which Gorbachev is General Secretary. He may thus be able (if his footwork remains agile) to use the new Supreme Soviet...
...person who may not be so enthusiastic about Mikhail Gorbachev's reforming impulse is Fidel Castro. While Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika earn admiration from both developed and developing countries, Cuba has yet to give its stamp of approval. For Castro, Cuba's leader for the past thirty years, "restructuring" may entail betrayal of the revolution, a return to what he has called "capitalist euphoria...