The Nation - News from Feb. 13, 1989

President Bush moved on his promised review of U.S.-Soviet relations in a meeting at his weekend retreat in Kennebunkport, Me., with a group of academics in the field. Earlier, Bush and his wife, Barbara, marked the first Sunday of Lent by attending an hourlong service at the First Congregational Church where they were warmly welcomed. After lunch, the President met the professors from Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a fellow from the Brookings Institution who were brought in on short notice. Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the discussion was meant to be “open-ended and not designed to focus on any particular facet of East-West relations.” Also at the meeting were National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence S. Eagleburger, deputy secretary of state-designate.