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...centerpiece of the whirlwind week was Shultz's first official meeting with Andrei Gromyko. The Soviet Foreign Minister has met with nine American Secretaries of State during his 25 years in office. Since he speaks English fluently, he did not ask to have Shultz's remarks translated, but he did reply in Russian. As they sat in U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick's office for their three-hour meeting, Gromyko gave a grim assessment of Soviet-American relations. Shultz, in turn, pressed Gromyko on Moscow's intervention in Poland, Afghanistan and Cambodia, and on use of biological...
...whirlwind of high-pressure politics, Ronald Reagan was waging the most perilous and difficult fight of his presidency. The stakes were high. If he failed to persuade Congress to pass a deficit-checking $99 billion three-year tax hike, the already swollen tide of red ink in the federal budget would rise even higher, swamping hopes for economic recovery and threatening deeper recession. Politically, a President who seemed to have a magic wand for passing major legislation would have shown that he could no longer control even his own party on Capitol Hill. The myth of the Great Communicator...
...populous democracy. Clad in a silk sari, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was met on the White House South Lawn last week by the President of the world's most powerful democracy. Her White House visit, highlighted by a glittering state banquet, was part of a whirlwind tour of America intended to reverse a decade of cool relations between the two countries. With a grandeur and grace that was reciprocated by her hosts, the Prime Minister succeeded both symbolically and substantively...
Turner's whirlwind pace leaves most aides looking a little shellshocked. He is a kaleidoscope of ever shifting moods, interests, personalities: now the apoplectic boss, now the courtly charmer, now the scholar and Renaissance man, now the buccaneer business baron. If Turner were a character from Shakespeare, and he has that kind of incandescence, he would be in equal parts the nobly ambitious Prince Hal, the impulsively belligerent Hotspur and the comically self-indulgent Falstaff. Says Schonfeld: "If Ted Turner were a color, it would be red-the red of the surface of the sun." Adds another Turner aide...
...other housebreaker merits note. As a calf-eyed aspiring playwright with a manic giggle and an iron handshake, Nathan Lane is the kind of disciple who could drive a deity to drink. Doubling as director of Present Laughter, Scott favors a whirlwind pace and high-decibel delivery. Casting himself against type is a bonus. This is a Patton pistol-whipped by endless frustration. There is high glee in watching George C. Scott do a fast burn of impotent, unutterable rage. - By T.E. Kalem