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- <text id=90TT0905>
- <title>
- Apr. 09, 1990: Don't Offer Him A Martini
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 09, 1990 America's Changing Colors
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 27
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p> AT THE JUNE SUMMIT, don't offer him a martini. Mikhail
- Gorbachev's health is of more than morbid interest to U.S.
- strategists. Analysts at the C.I.A. and State Department are
- now convinced he's a mild diabetic. They believe he developed
- the disease in his 40s and controls his blood sugar by taking
- tablets rather than insulin injections. He has been advised to
- watch what he eats and to avoid liquor, which may account for
- his strong dislike of vodka--and his campaign to stop his
- countrymen from knocking back so much of it.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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