Meanwhile, in Moscow

摘要

THE WHITE HOUSE was draped with a red flag, with hammer and sickle. Inside, the Soviet delegation led by Mikhail Gorbachev sang "Moscow Nights" and celebrated a landmark agreement to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons that had threatened Europe for years. It was December 8th 1987. The next day America's great and good, a group which included a pushy entrepreneur called Donald Trump, flocked to lunch at the State Department to hear Mr Gorbachev speak. "Two world wars, an exhausting cold war, plus small wars-all destroying millions of lives. Isn't this a high enough price to pay for adventurism, arrogance, contempt for the interests and rights of others?" the Soviet leader said. "How far we had come from the days of tension," George Shultz, Reagan's secretary of state mused to himself.