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True, Gorbachev had repeatedly and publicly proposed a snap meeting to negotiate a ban on nuclear tests. But Reagan and his closest advisers had had no hint that the Soviet leader was about to suggest, under conditions of strict secrecy, a far broader meeting. Upon beginning talks in Washington on $ Sept. 19, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze had informed Secretary of State George Shultz that he was carrying a letter from Gorbachev to Reagan. Shultz called White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan to suggest that he bring Shevardnadze to the Oval Office to deliver it in person...
Although he took part in the earlier separatist struggle, Garang is eager now to renounce any hint of a secessionist program. "We are not a Christian movement," he stresses. "We are not an African movement. We are a Sudanese movement. We cannot for a moment entertain sectarianism based on religion, on race or on tribe, because it is precisely such sectarianism that has blackened Sudan for 30 years. We are a unionist movement dedicated to the creation of a united new Sudan that uses its resources for the people and does not fight within itself...
...Hassan II, and before anyone knew the contents of the negotiations, Syria broke off diplomatic relations with Morocco and the P.L.O. declared it would oppose to the end any outcome. Some interested observers of this overture were candid and clear about the relationship between terrorism and peace, even a hint of peace: "Now," Royal Air Maroc stewards told a New York Times correspondent, "we will have to start worrying about hijackings and terrorist attacks." The fundamental fact of the Middle East today is that those who engage in terror do not want peace, and those who want peace...
...husband had kept them secret, she took a long, pensive pause and replied, "Love." Did Betsy mean that the artist, known for his continuing and intimate relationships with the subjects of his paintings, was having an affair with his model? Or could it be that Betsy's public hint of that affair was part of an elaborate strategy to woo media attention and thus inflate both the price of the works and the value of Wyeth's middlebrow eminence? There were no immediate, incontrovertible answers, but the story's hold on the popular imagination proved that Wyeth is still...
...idealize her. And yet she breathes with youth and possibility. When the series is fleshed out, weight and age attach themselves to her, and by the time Wyeth commits the image to paint she looks calcified, statuesque, a squaw totem placed on its side. But no: there is a hint of life and movement. Helga's hip has curled out of its confining sheet, perhaps in response to the sound of the cascade outside her window that gives the work its title. Following the gestation from sketch to drybrush is like flipping through a family album of Atget X rays...