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While Soviet news coverage of the Geneva summit was lively and thorough by past standards, the story was still carefully tailored for domestic audiences. Soviet TV's news team was led by Valentin Zorin, 61, the gray-haired, avuncular dean of Moscow's on-air political analysts. Zorin's background reports came principally from Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's top-ranking Americanologist. Like other Soviet journalists, Zorin adopted a tone of cautious optimism once the summit was under way, telling his audience of 150 million on the 9 o'clock nightly newscast Vremya (Time), "If the two leaders manage...
Moscow's mood swings were carefully monitored by newsmen from other members of the Warsaw Pact, who adjusted the tone of their reports accordingly. The trench-coated cadre kept watch on the summit press center's bulletin boards, which displayed the latest dispatches from the government news agency TASS. Declared Boris Tchakarov, correspondent for the Sofia daily Zemedelsko Zname (Agrarian Banner): "I want to see how TASS is writing about events." In the East bloc news game, not only do you get no extra points for scooping the big guys, you might lose some...
...Cabinet members cheering Ronald Reagan's triumphant return to Washington from Geneva last week provided the appearance of an Administration united behind his summit success. Such homecoming harmony, however, was preceded by internal rivalries that lasted right up to the President's departure for his first meeting with a Soviet leader and threatened to undermine his negotiating credibility. Reagan was furious when he learned that a letter from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, urging him to hang tough on arms control, had been leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post. The President's mood did not improve after...
...Weinberger, but the timing of his latest warning gave the Soviets an opening to charge that the U.S. plans to abrogate the only fully ratified arms treaty between the superpowers. Sure enough, the Soviets' Georgi Arbatov promptly stated that the letter proved Reagan was "not serious" about the summit. The flap soon subsided, however, and its eventual role at the summit was minimal...
...First Lady, 64, confidently sat back in her chair as the flock of photographers swirled around, strobes flashing; Raisa Gorbachev perched anxiously forward at the edge of her seat. When the press was at last safely outside, the women engaged in a drawing-room version of their husbands' fireside summit discussions, the hostess serving a flavored beverage, Celestial Seasonings Almond Sunset tea ($1.69 for 24 bags), which she had carried along from the U.S. Raisa Gorbachev gamely claimed she enjoyed the tea. Later White House aides said that Nancy had found Raisa somewhat pedantic and inflexible...