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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19891203
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Gennady Gerasimov, the Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, is quick with a joke, and yesterday's ominous storm apparently didn't sober him any. A few reporters encountered him wandering through a hallway on the cruise ship Maxim Gorky, and asked what he thought of weather so fierce that it had forced the cancellation of a meeting between the leaders of the world's two superpowers.

"If both navies cannot really come to terms with rough seas," he said. "how can they be ready when the real thing happens?" Then, apparently seizing the opportunity to take a jab at Washington's rejection of a ...

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