The November 20, 1985 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 323 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
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20th of November 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on November 20, 1985
A SMILING REAGAN IN SOVIET TV NEWS
Date: 21 November 1985
By Philip Taubman, Special To the New York Times
Philip Taubman
President Reagan, normally vilified by the Soviet press, has been on television screens the last two nights, smiling, laughing and apparently enjoying the company of Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Geneva. The main daily newspapers today published a large front-page picture of Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. Reagan chatting amicably in the glow of a fire in the pool house of the Fleur d'Eau chateau, where the two leaders held their first sessions Tuesday. It was the first front-page picture of an American President the Russians have seen in years. ''It's got to be jarring to Russians, accustomed to all the anti-American propaganda, to suddenly see Ronald Reagan in their living rooms smiling pleasantly and talking easily with Gorbachev,'' a diplomat said.
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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1985
Date: 21 November 1985
International The American and Soviet leaders held more private meetings in Geneva and agreed to end their conference with a joint appearance today, President Reagan's spokesman said. But American and Soviet officials said deep differences continued to separate Mr. Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev on arms control and other issues. [Page A1, Col. 6.] The private talks between the President and Mr. Gorbachev lasting nearly five hours loomed unusually large in Geneva. In the past, staff members have been fearful that some spur-of-the-moment comment might be misinterpreted or that zeal might overcome judgment and lead to an imprudent pledge. [A1:4-5.]
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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1985
Date: 20 November 1985
International Summit talks began in a good mood, according to spokesmen for President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The first American-Soviet summit sessions in six years lasted more than four hours, with half the time spent alone by the two leaders, with only interpreters present. [Page A1, Col. 6.] Mr. Gorbachev and Jesse Jackson spent 45 minutes in a stand-up, impromptu discussion in a crowded lobby at the Soviet Mission in Geneva. Mr. Jackson twice pressed the Soviet leader on the predicament of Soviet Jews. Mr. Gorbachev looked him squarely in the eye, with no hint of tension, and addressed the issue the second time Mr. Jackson raised it. Later, he termed Mr. Gorbachev a ''master communicator.'' [A1:4-5.]
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LOBBYIST ON A NATIONAL SCALE
Date: 21 November 1985
By Nadine Brozan
Nadine Brozan
Her name is on a foundation that has changed the course of medical research in this country, on a skating rink, on 10 honorary degrees and a new pink tulip. As one of her fans, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, said yesterday: ''Mary Lasker is an institution unto herself. Asking what her importance has been is like asking what Harvard has meant to this country.'' Dr. DeBakey, a heart surgery pioneer, was in the city for the presentation tomorrow of the 1985 Albert Lasker Medical Research and Public Service Awards. The event at the St. Regis-Sheraton will mark the 40th anniversary of the awards, which are second in prestige in medicine only to the Nobel Prize.
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Judge in Rhode Island Lifts Crime Data Curb
Date: 20 November 1985
AP
A Federal district judge today lifted an order prohibiting a newspaper and a television station here from reporting on illegally recorded taped conversations between a reputed leader of organized crime and his father. But the judge, Francis J. Boyle, ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation not to release any more transcripts and notes from the 20-year-old tapes pending a full hearing.
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Advertising; Magazine Publisher's Acquisition
Date: 21 November 1985
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
HAVING tired of being ''a single-title publisher in a multi-title world,'' Owen J. Lipstein, 34-year-old founder and publisher of the highly successful American Health magazine, has now acquired Mother Earth News. The two companies will be independent of one another as far as a corporate umbrella goes but will share a common chief executive. Mr. Lipstein will be publisher of both, which will mean frequent trips to Hendersonville, N.C., the home of Mother Earth. Since both are private companies Mr. Lipstein had every right not to disclose the selling price. But when the immediate past management bought the then 10-year-old magazine in 1980 in a leveraged buyout from its founder, John Shuttleworth, the price was reported to be in the area of $10 million.
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REAGAN CONTINUES PRIVATE MEETINFS WITH GORBACHEV
Date: 21 November 1985
By Bernard Weinraub, Special To the New York Times
Bernard Weinraub
President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev held three more private meetings today and agreed to conclude their conference here with a joint appearance on Thursday morning, Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, announced tonight. White House officials also said that Mr. Gorbachev plans to visit the United States in 1986 and that Mr. Reagan plans to visit Moscow in 1987. Earlier this week, negotiators were reported to be agreed in principle on a follow-up summit meeting. The two leaders are to appear at Geneva's International Conference Center Thursday morning before a worldwide television audience. Soviet and American officials said tonight that after two days of talks, profound differences continued to separate Washington and Moscow on arms control and other issues.
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The Fireside Summit
Date: 21 November 1985
By William Safire
William Safire
''A stroll in the park, a fireside chat, and thou beside me'' is the Rubaiyat of Ronald Reagan. Let us use our checklist of criteria for success in Summit XIV to see how we made out. First, on the standards that should not be used for judgment: 1. Did the leaders get on well? Famously. The extended minuet of this diehard duo will surely play in euphoria. The President's decision to go it alone - one-on-one for more than four hours - was Rooseveltian in its audacity (and its arrogance). True, we elect one man and trust him, but sometimes personal diplomacy goes too far, and Mr. Gorbachev should be reminded that no understandings reached man-to-man count beyond Jan. 20, 1989. 2. Were tensions reduced? This false criterion was met; the Russians, who last month were insisting that nuclear war loomed unless we gave up ''Star Wars,'' have abandoned that pose and are now hailing a new, personal detente, which they hope will be useful to them in dissolving the mistrust that invasion, repression and treaty violations have earned. 3. Was a breakthrough achieved in arms control? Of course not; although this is written while statements are being drafted, it appears that Mr. Reagan refused to accept this Soviet criterion for success in this resumption of normal relations after their long snit. 4. Did we get into the agreement-signing, summitary habit? They are to ''participate in a ceremony'' on symbolic stuff, and I fear we have agreed to follow-up meetings too quickly, but fig leaves for diplomatists denied ''breakthroughs'' should not be begrudged.
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A REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: FUR SCARF, BLACK BOOTS
Date: 21 November 1985
By Serge Schmemann, Special To the New York Times
Serge Schmemann
The veil of secrecy that shrouded the meetings of their husbands has not affected Raisa M. Gorbachev or Nancy Reagan. On the contrary, it seemed only to increase the First Ladies' share of the Geneva limelight. From early morning on, their visits, wardrobes, comments, teas and dinners supplied the color, gossip and action that the ban on information prohibited. Squads of Swiss, Soviet and American security men and busloads of reporters chased around town as the First Ladies pursued their busy programs.
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Asian Wall Street Journal Apologizes to Singapore
Date: 20 November 1985
UPI
Upi
The Asian Wall Street Journal and its editor apologized to Singapore's High Court today for committing contempt of court in an editorial published in The Journal last month. The newspaper and its editor accepted responsibility for what Attorney General Tan Boon Teik called ''a scandalous article'' in The Journal's Oct. 17 issue.
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