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...could not have been more startling if Joseph Stalin had bought stock in General Motors. Ronald Reagan, who built his political career by trashing arms-control agreements and demanding a linkage between American cooperation and Soviet good behavior, appears more interested in treaties and a second summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev than in punishing the Soviets for their Daniloff perfidy...
...timing of the private letter to the President seemed odd, its contents were startling. The crisis created by the Soviet detention of American Journalist Nicholas Daniloff threatened to poison all negotiations between the nuclear superpowers. Yet in the midst of this impasse, here was Mikhail Gorbachev declaring not only that he still wanted to meet Ronald Reagan again but also that he wished to do so right away, before the two superpower leaders committed themselves to a full-dress summit conference...
...been wearing when he was arrested, was driven to the airport. There he encountered several reporters standing at the departure gate. "I'm leaving more in sorrow than anger," said Daniloff, who proceeded to recite a more angry than sorrowful poem by the 19th century Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov about the "land of masters, land of knaves" (see ESSAY...
...MIKHAIL LERMONTOV...
...news for a month, that brought the world's two titans into open confrontation, that in the end, perhaps, prodded them to agree on the presummit summit. Yet to cap off those momentous political events, Daniloff, the center of the storm, reached back into art for a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written almost 150 years ago for another world and circumstance. Grant that it was more diplomatic of Daniloff to quote Lermontov's exasperation with Mother Russia than to express his own. Still, it is curious that one would articulate feelings about so immediate and politically charged an event...