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...morning's first public event, Gorbachev traveled to the Arc de Triomphe for a wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. As the 28-car motorcade moved up the Champs Elysees, the General Secretary raised his hand and gave an occasional wave out of the window of his armor-plated Peugeot 604 limousine. There were precious few people to wave back. For blocks along the route, only a few of the insatiably curious leaned against police barricades...
...since pets are only human, some owners have rather hairy stories to tell. Fred was out taking Omar his ferret for his daily walk and passed the room where the Opportunes were rehearsing. On a whim, he put Omar through the open window. "One guy saw him and started screaming and then they all started screaming, so there were 10 people screaming at once," he recalls...
...quake with British understatement. They were staying at the Galeria Plaza Hotel in the Zona Rosa neighborhood, Mexico City's popular tourist area. "I was having a cup of coffee in bed when my hand and the cup started shaking," Meeus said. "I looked out of the window and saw a building collapse. I turned to my wife and said, 'I think we've got a slight earth tremor...
...said, 'Where'd that come from?' Then everything was perfectly still." On the 48th floor of the 64-story Transco Tower in Houston, Martha Carlin saw "water sloshing around in the coffee urns. Office doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked out the window at the trees and they were standing still, so I knew the wind wasn't blowing." The tremors were also felt in McAllen and Brownsville, cities in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas-Mexico border...
...gives the Soviets an edge in the war of words. The rhetoric level will increase this week as both Shevardnadze and Shultz give major speeches to the U.N. General Assembly at the opening of its 40th session. The Soviets continue to build up the summit as a "window of opportunity" for a major breakthrough in arms control that may not arise again "for a very, very long time." The U.S. just as resolutely tries to play down such talk as "wishful thinking." At his press conference, Reagan said the summit should be viewed as "a beginning point for better relations...