RED SQUARE: The ultimate photo op-Reagan at the heart of the evil empire being introduced to a Soviet child as "Grandfather Reagan." The White House image makers balked at the idea of Reagan being photographed at the cynosure of communism, but Shultz and the President loved the idea. The groups they bumped into in Red Square, with or without infants, uncannily turned out to have questions on all the precise topics of the summit-they were KGB plants. Gorbachev had been a hit in Washington when he stopped his car on Connecticut Avenue and went walking among genuine bystanders eager to press the flesh-Gorbymania, it was called. Reagan had the same excited reception from ordinary Muscovites when he and Nancy dropped in on the crowded Arbat shopping mall. Later, Gorbachev stood aside when Reagan met 100 Soviet dissidents; human rights was now firmly on the agenda. A reporter asked Reagan if he still thought the Soviet Union was an evil empire. "No," said Reagan. "I was talking about another time, another era."
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