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...bargaining table, the U.S. negotiators arrived for the opening 11 a.m. session some twelve minutes late. The reason could scarcely have offended their hosts: the U.S. team had stopped off at another Soviet villa to sign a condolence book set out to mark the death of Konstantin Chernenko. Once the Americans showed up, the four negotiators and their interpreters sat down and talked, behind closed doors, for two hours and 45 minutes. They agreed on at least one point: it would be best not to discuss with reporters anything consequential from preliminary sessions. "Therefore," Kampelman said at a press conference...
Both sides were adroit enough at small talk to placate the headline-hungry press. In a lively, candid meeting with reporters before the first session, Karpov acknowledged that Mikhail Gorbachev was demonstrating leadership even before Chernenko died. Said Karpov: "He presided over the meeting of the Politburo that approved (my) instructions." Karpov ducked, however, a follow- up question on whether Chernenko had been expected to remain alive throughout | the talks. The Soviets ushered photographers gracefully into and out of the opening of their session. The U.S., by contrast, herded cameramen out with a loud countdown of "five . . . four . . . three...
President Gemayel deemed the crisis so serious that he canceled plans to attend the funeral of Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko and began a series of meetings with other Christian leaders, including Maronite Patriarch Antonie Pierre Cardinal Khoraiche. Geagea turned down an invitation to attend. Shortly thereafter, the Syrians began to make their own menacing moves...
...pace of reform slowed under the leadership of Chernenko but, significantly, did not stop. An additional 16 regional party secretaries were replaced; sporadic anticorruption campaigns continued. The Five Ministries experiment was expanded...
...intelligence report, a thick black notebook with gold lettering that is delivered to the Oval Office at 9:30 a.m. every working day, single lines about Gorbachev grew to paragraphs, and head shots became full- length photographs of a well-tailored, energetic man. Reagan took notice, knowing that Konstantin Chernenko would be dead sooner than later. Gorbachev's good-humored outing in Britain last December with his fur-clad, stylish wife provided plenty of new material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried them...