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...difference in U.S. and Argentine preoccupations showed up plainly on the White House South Lawn, where President Reagan first met his visitor. After 21 guns banged out their salute and a fife and drum corps clad in Revolutionary War uniforms tweetled a welcome, Reagan declared that "the flame of liberty burns red-hot in Argentina." Taking note of Argentina's woes, Reagan advocated making "tough decisions" in the economic sphere, meaning austerity, as the best solution leading to recovery. Reagan also took the opportunity to extol his own hard-line policies in Central America, particularly vis-a-vis the leftist...
...head of a receiving line in the white-and-gilt Hall of St. George. Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and First Vice President Vasili Kuznetsov were by his side as he greeted the foreign dignitaries. Gorbachev looked his guests in the eye, occasionally giving a visitor a two-handed grip or flashing a reserved smile of recognition...
...supplies." Yet the British also found Gorbachev a cool, reflective man quite capable of a steely riposte. When a Conservative Member of Parliament asked about the persecution of religious minorities in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev shot back: "You govern your society and you leave us to govern ours." The visitor's annoyance, the M.P. recalled, was "electrifying...
...dice to see who would pay the bill for the 10:30 a.m. coffee crowd and said of the President's State of the Union address: "Oh, he's great. When he gets done, we'll have the rich and the poor. But he's great." Even a visitor primed by years of listening to Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion is not sure whether this is a deadpan Minnesota joke, a political opinion--or both...
...Charlot. Having lost everything but his life, the survivor feels driven inexorably toward the home he has relinquished. There he meets his unsuspecting inheritors: an old woman who knows nothing of the fate of her son and a sister who can think of little else. Therese gives the ragged visitor food and discusses the horrible man who bought her brother's death: "I tell myself that one day he will come back here because he won't be able to resist seeing what's happened to his beautiful house." And when he does? the uneasy Chavel wonders aloud. The reply...