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...explosion, designed to test the effects of radiation on American warheads, will underline in the bluntest possible manner the swift White House rejection of the Kremlin's latest arms-control overture. With the deft mixing of propaganda and substance that has been the hallmark of his style, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev went on television two weeks ago, with no advance word to the U.S. through diplomatic channels, to propose that President Reagan meet him promptly in Europe to negotiate a total ban on nuclear tests. If the U.S. rejected the offer and continued testing, Gorbachev warned, the Kremlin would...
...last rites were held instead in a more modest setting, the church of St. Francis de Sales in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood, where he once served as an altar boy. His pallbearers were like a sampling of Cagney's many sides. They included Boxer Floyd Patterson, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Actor Ralph Bellamy and Director Milos Forman...
...statement mention the summit between Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Reagan scheduled for this year in the United States, or how it might be affected by the test ban developments...
...renowned for his fluid movements onstage, but this was ridiculous. Mikhail Baryshnikov's repertoire was strictly freestyle, as he took a break from the American Ballet Theater's six-city tour to try a little whale dancing last week at San Diego's Sea World aquatic park. Trading his tights for a wet suit, the A.B.T. director jumped into a training tank for a pas de trois with two 900-lb. Pacific whales. An avid supporter of the Save the Whales campaign, the Latvian fed the leviathans some fish and performed an impromptu water ballet with them. "They...
...Administration suspected that the operation diminished the Soviets' prestige, both by revealing the inferiority of the weapons they had supplied to Libya and by exposing their reluctance to do anything other than light up their ship and head for safety when fighting broke out. But General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev did seek to score some propaganda points. In a speech on Wednesday, the Soviet leader denounced the "imperial, bandit face" of U.S. policy, and then offered to withdraw Soviet naval forces from the Mediterranean if the U.S. did likewise. The ploy was scarcely plausible. The American commitment to protect Western interests...