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...since John F. Kennedy arrived to denounce the Berlin Wall in 1963 have West Germans lavished such adulation on a foreign visitor as they did last week on Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. But the messages left by the two travelers, their visits separated by 26 years of history, were nearly as disparate as the directions from which they arrived. Whereas Kennedy's aim was to spread a message of resolve at the very height of the cold war, the Soviet leader proclaimed a new era in which East and West could peacefully share their common continent...
Everywhere he went, Gorbachev and his wife Raisa were besieged by cheering and excited crowds chanting, "Gorbi! Gorbi! Gorbi!" Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who faces a tough campaign for re-election in 1990, made seven appearances with his visitor, hoping, perhaps, to absorb some of the generous warmth. Gorbachev's popularity rating among West German voters is considerably higher than Kohl's; a poll taken for the weekly Der Spiegel in early June gave Gorbachev a score of +2.2 on a scale of +5 to -5, compared with -0.6 for Kohl...
...South African-born animals most of the comforts of home. "This is fine rhino country," says Bentsen, as he pulls off the highway onto a sandy dirt road. Suddenly you are in south Texas as it was before the developers paved it over. In a soft morning fog, a visitor might mistake the silvery mesquite thickets and rough grass clearings for Africa's Zambezi valley...
...nose, the line of a mouth -- that suggest the presence of a face. A computer then makes more detailed scans at higher and higher resolutions, trying to match facial features to those of family members stored in its memory. (An unfamiliar face would be recorded as a "visitor.") When the machine makes a match, the information is sent by phone lines to Nielsen's central ratings computer, and then to subscribers...
...face of such harassment, Dona Violeta's posture has been that of a grande dame icily putting a cheeky pigherd in place. When a visitor to her office greeted her with the standard postrevolutionary salute, "Good morning, comrade," she fired back, "Don't you dare call me that. That is a word they use." If her secretary fouls up, Violeta joshingly threatens her with the fate that befell Rosario Murillo, who for eleven years was Pedro Joaquin Chamorro's executive assistant: she married Daniel Ortega...