The Games are over
в пятницу послезавтра заканчивается Golden Jubilee: в течение всего года 15 млн (цифра условная) низаритов праздновали
Из воспоминаний Нэнси Рейган о 1-й встрече её мужа с Горби на вилле Ага Хана под Женевой:
..after a few minutes in the meeting, Ronnie said to him, "Why not go outside and get a little fresh air?" Gorbachev was on his feet before Ronnie finished the sentence. And off they went. I think people were only expecting them to be gone for a few minutes - 15 or 20. Well, it stretched to 25 minutes and [then - White House Chief of Staff] Don Regan said to Jim Kuhn, Ronnie's personal assistant, "This meeting is running way over time. Don't you think [we] should break it up?" And Jim said, "No, I think I'd better talk to George Shultz." And George said, "If you're dumb enough to break this meeting up, then you don't deserve the position you have." And so they let it go. The meeting went on for about an hour and a half. When they reported those plans, their advisers just about fainted.
Ronnie sensed that underneath all the communist beliefs, that in Gorbachev there was a deep spiritual belief - and a belief in destiny.
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Юбилейный Год закончился ещё одним событием: в Найроби прошли первые в истории Golden Jubilee Games (GJG): 1 200 спортсменов из 27 стран в 14 категориях (среди которых был и гольф в the Windsor Golf Country Club). Золото в осн. у канадцев. Неожиданно звучащий титул "fastest Ismaili on the planet" (100 метровка) получил американец с необыкновенно приятным мне именем Фарук.