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...Kelley wrongly implies Nancy Reagan had a major hand in shaping foreign policy. In one encounter described in the book, President Reagan's aides showed him an agenda for his Geneva summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. The President asked whether the agenda had been shown to Nancy yet. No, he was told. "Get back to me after she's passed on it," he said. The reason for his concern was almost certainly Nancy's obsession with coordinating his schedule with the astrological charts -- a revelation that came out years ago. But Kelley uses the incident to imply, misleadingly, that...
Reagan ignored his homework on the eve of a summit meeting because, he explained to an aide, "The Sound of Music was on last night." Reagan's fascination with Armageddon theology fueled his enthusiasm for the Star Wars missile-defense system. Decision making occasionally stagnated not only because of intra-Cabinet disputes, but also because his advisers often had to rely on the President's body language as a code for intentions Reagan refused to articulate. The supporting cast speaks candidly in these pages. Jeane Kirkpatrick recalls an agonizing conflict over policy toward Nicaragua, and Reagan's role: "Just absent...
Only two years after invading Kuwait, our old acquaintance Saddam Hussein (looking healthy and heavily re-armed by the French and the Chinese) has just welcomed his fellow Arab leaders--including the Emir of Kuwait and the King of Saudi Arabia--to the Arab League summit. Cordiality and warm embraces have replaced the fighting words of the "Kuwait incident," and the failure of the West to make progress on the Palestinian issue has reunited the Arabs in their hatred of the "Zionist occupying entity," Israel, and its allies in Europe and North America...
...WILBER/KENNY DAVERN: SUMMIT REUNION (Chiaroscuro). Rarely has a musical marriage been so harmonious. Wilber and Davern first teamed up back in the '70s in a highly touted jazz sextet called Soprano Summit. That group is no more, alas, but this studio rematch, featuring Wilber on soprano sax and Davern on clarinet, scales a new peak...
...Summit; 378 pages...