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...Summit's Hopes...
...rainbow" ad, sponsored by the pro-Star Wars lobbying group High Frontier, peppered the Washington airwaves as the President was preparing to leave for the Geneva summit. The "building blocks" commercial, hastily put together for the Committee for a Strong Peaceful America by Democratic Media Merlin Robert Squier, was created to deflect the impact of the first ad. These two commercials are merely the first and most publicized round in the great Star Wars Public Relations War, a duel of imagery that is bound to escalate even faster than the arms race...
...cedar trees on Reagan's 688 acres above the Pacific. The President called it "dog heaven." Likewise, Reagan was entering, at least for the moment, some kind of political Promised Land. Wirthlin's findings showed Americans gave Reagan an 81% approval rating for his performance at the Geneva summit and a 77% overall job approval. Once again, his popularity achieved a record high...
...part of Reagan's human nature to like people. At one point during the Geneva summit, Reagan came out of a good private session with Gorbachev and told a close aide, "Sometimes I've got to remind myself just who he is and what he represents." Despite the amiability that came through in public, Reagan seems to have succeeded in that also...
...Geneva summit is not the only sign of a thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations. While Ronald Reagan was preparing to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of American banks was quietly deciding to loan money to the Soviet Union. The First National Bank of Chicago and three New York banks--Bankers Trust, Morgan Guaranty and Irving Trust--have joined the Royal Bank of Canada in giving the Soviets a $200 million credit line to help buy American and Canadian grain. Other U.S. banks are expected to participate in the loans...