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...decision to become a dancer, Reagan awkwardly told reporters, "It's O.K. We've made sure he's all man." More recently, Ron has been turning out pieces for Playboy magazine on such subjects as the 1984 Democratic National Convention and the summit between his father and Mikhail Gorbachev. Wearing blue jeans and red Reeboks, Ron had the unprecedented advantage of living at the President's chateau while on assignment, causing no small consternation among the rest of the press corps. Some officials were dismayed by the flippant article he produced. Titled While Lenin Slept, it tosses out cheeky descriptions...
Waiting along with Peres to welcome Shcharansky at Ben Gurion Airport were a number of Cabinet ministers and politicians, together with the country's two Chief Rabbis. As the plane came to a halt and the door opened, a tall man carrying a shopping bag stepped inside. It was Mikhail Stiglitz, Avital's brother, who is an Israeli army officer. The pilot had radioed ahead that Shcharansky, who was released from the labor camp in a threadbare suit of clothes, badly needed a pair of pants and a belt to hold them up. While the crowd waited, Shcharansky changed into...
...Moscow, meanwhile, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told visiting Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts that the next summit with President Reagan must produce concrete results rather than the general statements about reducing the threat of war that concluded the first Gorbachev-Reagan meeting in Geneva last November. In a striking turnaround, Gorbachev seemed to enhance the prospect for a deal on missiles in Europe by stating that the Soviets would not insist that the U.S. first agree to abandon research on a space- based defense system (Star Wars). According to Kennedy, Gorbachev said "in emphatic and unmistakable terms that there...
...retaliated by expelling four French diplomats of equivalent rank. For good measure, the Soviets have also ordered the expulsion of two Italians, apparently in retaliation for the quiet ejection of two Soviets who left Rome last week. The Soviet actions seemed a confirmation that Soviet policy has hardened under Mikhail Gorbachev. Indeed, Western diplomats in Moscow suggested last week that the Kremlin's tough line may be a warning to the U.S., where spy scandals have increased the pressure on Washington to curtail the number of Soviets allowed in the country...
Asked about the release earlier in the day of Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, Reagan said he "talked at great length about human rights" with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their summit last November. Reagan said he thought there had been an increase in such emigrations since then, and added, "I hope that this is a beginning sign of what's going to take place...