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...cover a season (1986-87) with the American Ballet Theatre: the rehearsals, the tour, the filming of the Herbert Ross movie Dancers in Italy. Their achievement is that they manage to animate the dailiness of backstage life from the point of view of both the artistic management, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the dancers. Fraser's prose may be gushy at times, and Arnold's photos are grainy, but both beat with life and explode with candor. The arias of shop talk, the revelation of fears and jealousies, as well as the wry wisdom and humor, are riveting and give...
That set the stage for a showdown between Moscow and one of the Soviet Union's smallest and most recently acquired republics. Nonetheless, on a state visit to India last week, Mikhail Gorbachev made an effort at conciliation. He praised Estonia for its "pioneering work to develop initiatives," and admitted that "there have been mistakes" in Moscow's dealings with the republic. "They have many constructive proposals, but there are also some which have been dictated by emotion," he said. "I hope we shall decide everything correctly...
...Mikhail Gorbachev has learned since coming to power in 1985, the "unbreakable union" has a few cracks. The 285 million Soviet people form a patchwork of at least 100 ethnic groups in 15 national republics, 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and ten autonomous areas. Only about 140 million are ethnic Russians -- and a growing number of the remainder are restless...
...wait for Bush's Inauguration. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in Washington for valedictory visits to Reagan, took Bush aside to voice their concerns about the U.S. economy. (Thatcher, interestingly, spent as much time with Greenspan as with Bush.) Meanwhile, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in yet another deft diplomatic thrust, announced that he would make a surprise visit to the United Nations next month. The President and President-elect ruled out any impromptu superpower bargaining. Still, complained a senior Bush foreign policy adviser, "we're already being expected to govern. It isn't fair...
...report from Kabul broadcast on last week's Soviet television program International Panorama startled some viewers. Remarked veteran correspondent Mikhail Leshchinsky: "It may be said that the People's Democratic Party is not actually the ruling party in Afghanistan." Official leak or not, that represented another public step away from the Soviet-backed regime of Afghan President Najibullah. For months the ruling P.D.P. has been riven by a bitter internecine war over the correctness of Moscow and Najibullah's policy of "national reconciliation...