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...dealing with foreign powers too the President has been self-confident and assertive. Secretary of State George Shultz last week had barely begun to list the pros and cons of the President's going to Moscow to attend the funeral of Konstantin Chernenko and meet the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, when, seeing Reagan's wry smile, he stopped and said to the President, "I can tell by the look on your face . . ." Reagan interjected, "Yes, but go on." To no one's surprise, the President decided not to go--because, explained a senior aide, Gorbachev "is not yet ready...
...Konstantin Chernenko's funeral, TIME's Nancy Traver walked through the streets of Moscow asking many people for their thoughts about their former leader, about Mikhail Gorbachev and about their hopes for the future. Several of the citizens she questioned asked for her identification; one man threatened to call a policeman. The elderly were wary of talking to an American, the young relatively eager. Nearly all gave a strikingly uniform response: they knew little about their country's leaders and were not unduly concerned about what they did not know. "I'm afraid it is all a matter of utter...
...months later, Amfitheatrof once again maintained a vigil in St. George's Hall, "watching Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applying body English during an earnest conversation with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and noting the poignantly graceful passage of sari- clad Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi." Amfitheatrof was covering Mikhail Gorbachev's successful visit to Britain last December when Ustinov's death caused Gorbachev to rush back to Moscow. Amfitheatrof also hurried back, canceling plans to join his wife and two daughters for Christmas in Rome...
Papandreou did not seem overly concerned that he had missed seeing Chernenko or Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, who is widely assumed to hold the No. 2 spot in the Kremlin. At a reception in the Greek embassy, Papandreou was in a jovial mood. As a folk singer rendered an old Russian favorite, Kalinka (Little Snowball Tree), in a throaty voice to the accompaniment of a balalaika and harmonica, the Prime Minister rose and, while 100 guests cheered him on, performed a graceful sirtaki, circling around with his arms raised over his head, like a man much younger than...
...tapes and movement in performance, manages to shift smoothly into the more formal vocabulary of classical ballet. Field, Chair and Mountain is set to a noisy concerto by the 19th century Irish piano virtuoso John Field (thus the Field in the title). In commissioning the piece, Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov asked only that Gordon use a set, and Gordon came up with an inventive one. Executed with cheeky wit by Santo Loquasto, it unfolds from left to right like a Japanese screen: first a sort of rock field, then above it, an orange mountain on which are painted more folding...