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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...will negotiate furiously for economic and security assurances before approving unification. Germany can offer technology, loans and credits that would give a crucial boost to the disintegrating Soviet economy. For its part, Bonn is quick to deny it is trying to appease Soviet military fears with purely economic payoffs. Instead officials talk of weaving a web of mutual understanding, where both sides would benefit economically and politically. Though Washington would welcome any arrangement that makes the Kremlin more amenable, it is also likely to have misgivings about the possibility of a burgeoning German-Soviet concord that leaves...
...enmity started when Yeltsin began to display a calculated indifference to protocol at Politburo meetings. As a candidate member, he was expected to show proper respect for his superiors, especially General Secretary Gorbachev. Instead he chose to treat the ritualized meetings as a setting for serious debate. In the summer of 1987 he boldly offered a long list of objections to a report Gorbachev planned to present on the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. The party chief stormed out and left the other members sitting silently for half an hour before he returned. At that moment, Yeltsin said, "Gorbachev...
...Barbara knows how to change the subject when Mrs. Gorbachev begins, you know, talking like she does." For her part, Raisa helped things along by not kicking the First Dog when Millie plopped down on her foot at Thursday's White House tea, and made appropriate Russian cooing sounds instead. Of such courtesies is detente made. The official word after the opening meeting was that Raisa and Millie "had bonded...
...breezy Bush presidency provided the right atmosphere for Gorbachev to tone down her glitzy image, mollifying the folks back home waiting in bread lines wearing RAISA NYET buttons on their nondesigner lapels. Instead of the three wardrobe changes a day of her 1987 visit, Gorbachev adopted a dare-to- be-frumpy look for her round of appearances at the Library of Congress, the Capital Children's Museum and the Lincoln bedroom. Although she could not resist adding glitter to Thursday's embassy lunch with such celebrities as Jane Fonda and Dizzy Gillespie -- so famous for being famous they need...
...make the relationship work despite their difficulties. After wrestling for two days with intractable problems, the two Presidents simply set their differences aside and exchanged signatures on a variety of halfway measures. When their negotiators got hung up once again on the details of arms reduction, Bush and Gorbachev instead signed a joint statement to slash the numbers of strategic nuclear warheads, and they inked formal pacts to eliminate most of their arsenals of chemical arms and to verify limits on nuclear testing. Those, however, were old, well-worn issues; progress came harder on the newer, post-cold war problems...