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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Nancy finds she president have tiring schedules thursday. June 2, 19b8 Leningrad. . A Nancy Reagan said tuesday thai she and president Reagan have had such hectic schedules during the  cd Summit thai hey Are like ships passing in the night. Mrs. Reagan who met twice with reporters aboard the . Plane that look her on a Day trip to Leningrad said she s pretty Well adjusted to the Jet lag and the eight hour time differ ence Between Washington and mos cow. The first couple had a 3 a Day Stop Over in Helsinki Finland in order to adjust to the time change and to pre pare for the five Day superpower sum Mit. I was awake Al 6 . This morning and usually i Wake up at 3 ., so that s Progress mrs. Reagan said. Given the observation by some re porters that Reagan appeared quite lived mrs. Reagan was asked How her husband was sleeping. He sleeps Fine she said. However presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said at a briefing that while there was no problem Wim the president s health he did have a difficult night s sleep. And we re All a Little  Gennady Gerasimov the soviet spokesman took mrs. Reagan s Side saying he walked up a Steep staircase with Reagan. I Tell breathless but the president Felt of Gerasimov said. The first lady said she s had Little Chance to discuss Summit topics with her husband because of her own heavy schedule of touring soviet monuments and museums As Well As the Leningrad tour. We re just like ships passing in the night she said. App Kllc Raisa Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan pause before tuesday night dinner in Moscow. Brubeck has fan in Moscow Gorbachev Moscow a pianist Dave Brubeck solved another mystery about the soviet Union s highest offi Cial on tuesday night finding out that when it comes to jazz Mikhail s. Gorbachev is very into in i m ready 10 Fly to the Moon the 67-year-old Ameri can jazz great declared after his quintet played at a dinner president and mrs. Reagan hosted for the Gorbachev. In an interview before the performance at Spaso House inc . Ambassador s residence where the Reagan Are staying during the Summit Brubeck said he was curious to find out what the general Secretary and his wife think of american jazz. He got the answer despite he language Barrier. I can t understand russian but i can understand body language said the pianist who added the general Secretary appeared to be very into it and was seen tap Ping his foot not an easy thing to do to Brubeck s Odd rhythms. Brubeck s 36-year-old son Chris who plays Bass guitar and trombone in the quintet said he Learned from a woman sitting near the general Secretary that mrs. Reagan turned to Gorbachev at one Point during the music and asked if he liked jazz. According to the younger Brubeck the s7-year-old re Rumlin chief responded "1 like Good jazz and this is Good  that puts Gorbachev in the ranks of at least one other soviet general Secretary Yuri Andropov who was reputed to be a jazz fan. At the opposite extreme a struck a dissonant chord for Premier Nikita Khrushchev who said in december 1963 that when i hear jazz it s As if i bad Gas on the  Brubeck said that after his group s 15-Minutc performance inc Gorbachev came up to him All smiles and complimentary As for the reagans who last heard Brubeck i n a feb. 21white House performance they could t have been ., soviet Union reach agreement on 9 accords Moscow not the United states and the soviet Union tuesday reached agreements on nine accords including one to increase the num Ber of High school Exchange students to As Many As 1,500 Over the next two Yean. Other agreements ranged from one expanding cultural exchanges to one on the peaceful uses of outer space. As expected two agreements were signed on  control one requires Advance notification of launches of ballistic missiles ands one provides for experiments to improve ways to Monitor limits on nuclear testing. No breakthroughs were reported on a strategic  treaty. The agreement in principle to increase the Exchange of students was proposed tuesday by president Reagan and agreed to by soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Under current arrangements no More than so soviet Aud american students take part in such exchanges each year. The  control measure were signed tues Day morning by Secretary of stale George p. Shultz and foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze. Soviet foreign ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said the accords were not signed by Reagan and Gorbachev because they arc too Smalt for  under the launching notification agreement each Side would provide notice Al least 24 hours in Advance of All launching of land and sea based ballistic missiles. The notification would include the Date of launching the launching area and the area of Impact. The agreement builds on an existing arrange ment in which the two sides notify each other of launching Over water. The 160-Page agreement on joint testing experiments stipulates that each Side can measure the yield of a nuclear explosion at the other Side s nuclear test site using is own approach. Other pacts signed tuesday included an Exten Sion of an Accord on cultural and educational exchanges an agreement on cooperation in scientific research on the peaceful uses of nuclear Energy an Accord on fisheries and measures on transportation maritime search and Rescue and radio navigation and some limited cooperation in space exploration.  the pianist said Reagan told him Al the february performance How much be loved the big bands and How much they were a part of american  the group began with Duke Ellington s take the a train a Well known jaz classic in the soviet Union because it is the theme sons for a daily voice of America shortwave radio jazz program that has introduced thou Sands of soviets to the american Art form since the 1950s. Next was someday my Prince will come and Kin for a  Brubeck wound up with i 1958 Standard take five the first jazz single Ever logo Gold. Brubeck said the Spaso House audience which included sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia a fiddler was More charged than any other he had played for in the Hals of Kings and presidents in his 50-year career. Brubeck toured the soviet Union in March and april of last year in a critically acclaimed concert series. Indians denounce Reagan s remarks Washington a rep. Ben night horse Campbell d-wyo., a Northern Cheyenne tribesman and the Only american Indian in Congress joined a chorus of Indian groups and others in denouncing president Reagan s remarks to students at Moscow state University on tuesday. Reagan made the comments after a student asked if he would meet with three indians visiting Moscow to Call attention to the problems of american indians. Maybe we made a mistake in trying to maintain Indian cultures Reagan said. Maybe we should not have Humoured them in that wanting to stay in that kind of primitive lifestyle. Maybe we should have said no come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us " All american indians were made full . Citizens by an act of Congress in 1924. They from the beginning announced that they wanted to maintain their Way of life As they had Al ways lived there in the desert and the Plains and so Forth. And we set up these reservations so they could and have a Bureau of Indian affairs to help take care of them Reagan said. I Only wish the president knew As much about Ameri can indians As he seems to know about the russians Campbell said. It s incredible he knows so  Suzan Haijo executive director of the National con Gress of american indians said she found the remark about hum Oring the indians particularly insulting Gregory Frazier president of the Denver based National Urban Indian Council said i m a fan of the president but the president is a Little bit removed from the reality of american   
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