Gorbachevs and Reagans Exchange Gifts to Commemorate Their Talks
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GENEVA — President Reagan, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and their wives exchanged gifts to commemorate their meetings here, officials said Wednesday.
White House press spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan gave Gorbachev a Chippendale-style mahogany box with an inscribed message. The box was made in Virginia’s Colonial Williamsburg.
A second gift--a desk set on the theme “Peace through communications”--was presented in honor of the joint U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz space mission.
Gorbachev gave Reagan 15 gold medallions representing the Soviet republics, set in a red-lined leather box, and a Palekh wall plaque showing a view of the Kremlin with St. Basil’s cathedral, Speakes said.
Mrs. Reagan gave Mrs. Gorbachev a large bowl known as the Rose Garden bowl. Mrs. Gorbachev gave Mrs. Reagan a porcelain tea set, a string of beads and a matching bracelet.
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