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...soon as the summit was announced, the Icelandic government enlisted the services of one of its foremost emissaries, Miss Iceland, who is also the reigning Miss World. Holmfridur Karlsdottir, a blue-eyed nursery-school teacher, was called back from a trip to Singapore to dress up Reykjavík by traipsing around wearing a Reagan-and-Gorbachev-in-Iceland T shirt. "It's fabulous for Iceland!" she exclaimed. "It's the best publicity we could ever get." She was the soul of congeniality, but she adamantly refused to pose in a swimsuit. Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson, on the other hand, showed...
...time the U.S. and Soviet support staffs had arrived in Reykjavík, stores were already brimming with summit souvenirs. There were Icelandic wool sweaters with profiles of Reagan and Gorbachev ($45), scarves with the Stars and Stripes on one end and the hammer and sickle on the other ($20) and all manner of Reagan-Gorbachev T shirts celebrating the great event ($11.44). Top of the line was a commemorative ashtray with real gold lettering ($50). Some of the stores opened their doors on Sunday to satisfy souvenir-mad summiteers...
...part, the contrast in styles reflects a contrast in goals: the Soviets sought to play up the summit as a historic occasion, while the Americans tried to downplay it as a low-key business session. But it meant that the Soviets seemed to outmaneuver the U.S. in the battle for spin control. "Yes, I'm perturbed," said a U.S. official. "Not at their side--that kind of p.r. is perfectly within the rules. I'm perturbed by the lack of it from our own team...
...from their past stentorian sloganeering. Under Gorbachev, they have come to realize that cultivating international public opinion can boost their foreign policy. The new affability and reasonableness was first evident at the 1985 Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting in Helsinki and became more apparent at the Geneva summit. In Iceland, the style has come into...
...after a while the mask of courtesy began to slip a bit. On Saturday the Soviets wheeled out their designated American hit man, Georgi Arbatov, who asserted that the summit "is not a symptom of improved relations but a test for worsening relations." Arbatov went from cynical to surly at a press conference when a man attempting to ask a question identified himself as a representative of the Committee for Soviet Jewry in Stockholm. "No," Arbatov snapped, "it is the Committee for anti-Soviet Jewry...