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...free world had some officials in Washington and Western Europe concerned last week that the President had come close to accepting a huge Soviet advantage in conventional forces. Administration officials conceded that the Soviets had not seriously misrepresented the President's assent to a sweeping no-nukes proposal from Mikhail Gorbachev at the Reykjavik summit. Although it seemed that Reagan might have blundered into this position, White House aides insisted that he had been fully aware of the implications of his bargaining tactics...
Whatever Misha wants Misha gets, and in everything from performing to generating projects, he makes it look so spectacularly easy. Mikhail Baryshnikov's latest undertaking is a movie called A Time to Dance, which is currently filming in Bari, Italy. The idea started when Baryshnikov went to Director Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) and proposed that they film the 19th century ballet Giselle together. Ross suggested expanding the concept to include a film-within-a-film plot about the world's greatest male dancer and the love affairs he has while filming a performance of Giselle. Baryshnikov did not find...
...hallmarks of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's regime has been its emphasis on glasnost, an officially sanctioned openness about Soviet society's shortcomings and difficulties. Now glasnost has spread to the realm of culture, where a renewed atmosphere of artistic freedom has allowed the appearance of controversial works, especially those dealing with the long- suppressed Stalin...
...accused the U.S. side of a "complete retreat" from the October 11-12 summit meeting in Iceland between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
Indeed, the Soviets view the rapprochement between Peking and East European governments as part of their own campaign for closer relations with the Chinese. Last month Jaruzelski stopped off in Moscow for talks with Soviet , officials before and after his journey to China. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is said to want to re-establish high-level political ties between Moscow and Peking. That desire so far has been frustrated, although cordial talks by various middle-ranking officials have been going on between the two Communist nations since...