The Washington Summit : Guest List for State Dinner
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Here is a list of guests who attended the Tuesday night state dinner at the White House in honor of the Gorbachevs:
HOSTS: President Reagan and Nancy Reagan.
GUESTS OF HONOR: Soviet General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Raisa Gorbachev.
SOVIET GUESTS: Sergei F. Akhromeyev, deputy minister of defense and chief of staff, Soviet armed forces; Georgy A. Arbatov, director, Institute for Study of U.S.A. and Canada; Alexander A. Bessmertnykh, deputy minister for foreign affairs; Valery I. Boldin, Central Committee general department head; Anatoly S. Chernayev, foreign policy aide; Anatoly F. Dobrynin, secretary, Central Committee; Yuri V. Dubinin, ambassador to the United States; Vladimir M. Kamentsev, deputy chairman, Council of Ministers; Nikolai Y. Kruchina, Central Committee chief administrator; Eduard A. Shevardnadze, foreign minister and Politburo member; Alexander N. Yakovlev, Politburo member in charge of propaganda.
ADMINISTRATION: Howard H. Baker Jr., White House chief of staff, and daughter Cissy Baker; Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III and Susan Baker; Vice President George Bush and Barbara Bush; Secretary of Defense Frank C. Carlucci and Marcia Carlucci; Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Shirley Crowe; Kenneth M. Duberstein, White House deputy chief of staff, and Sydney Duberstein; Max M. Kampelman, chief U.S. arms control negotiator; Jack F. Matlock Jr., ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Rebecca Matlock; Paul H. Nitze, ambassador at large; Lt. Gen. Colin L. Powell, national security adviser, and Alma Powell; William H. Rehnquist, chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court, and Natalie Rehnquist; Rozanne L. Ridgway, assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs, and Theodore Deming; Selwa Roosevelt, U.S. chief of protocol, and Archibald Roosevelt; Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Helena Shultz; Vernon A. Walters, U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; Charles Z. Wick, USIA director, and Mary Jane Wick.
CONGRESS: Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), Senate majority leader, and Irma Byrd; Rep. Dick Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Lynne Cheney; Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), Senate minority leader, and Elizabeth Dole; Rep. Robert H. Michel (R-Ill.), House minority leader, and Corinne Michel; Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Catherine Stevens; Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex.), Speaker of the House, and Betty Wright.
FORMER U.S. OFFICIALS: Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser, and Emille Brzezinski; Richard M. Helms, former director, CIA, and Cynthia Helms; Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former ambassador to the United Nations, and Evron Kirkpatrick; Henry A. Kissinger, former secretary of state, and Nancy Kissinger; Richard N. Perle, former assistant secretary of defense, and Leslie Perle; Caspar W. Weinberger, former secretary of defense, and Jane Weinberger.
BUSINESS: Dwayne Andreas, chairman, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., and Dorothy Andreas; Kenneth Bialkin, attorney, and Ann Bialkin; Ted Graber, interior designer; Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp., and Frances Hammer; John H. Johnson, president, Johnson Publishing Co., and Eunice Johnson; Donald Petersen, chairman of Ford Motor Co.; James D. Robinson III, chairman, American Express Co., and Linda Robinson; David Rockefeller, former chairman of Rockefeller Bros. Fund; Roger B. Smith, chairman of General Motors Corp.; Robert S. Strauss, attorney, and Helen Strauss.
ARTS AND CULTURE: Pearl Bailey, singer, and musician Louis Bellson; Saul Bellow, author; J. Carter Brown, director, National Gallery of Art; Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist; Ruth Bunche, widow of Nobel Prize winner Ralph Bunche; Claudette Colbert, actress; Rildia Bee Cliburn, mother of pianist Van Cliburn; Zubin Mehta, music director, New York Philharmonic; Mstislav Rostropovich, National Symphony Orchestra conductor, and diva Galina Vishnevskaya; James Stewart, actor, and Gloria Stewart.
ACADEME: James H. Billington, librarian of Congress, and Marjorie Billington; Suzanne Massie, author and visiting scholar at Harvard Russian Research Center; Dimitri K. Simes, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Natasha Simes; Edward Teller, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
RELIGION: Billy Graham, evangelist, and Ruth Graham.
SPORTS: Joe DiMaggio, member, Baseball Hall of Fame; Chris Evert, tennis professional; Meadowlark Lemon, former Harlem Globetrotter; Mary Lou Retton, gymnast.
MEDIA: Robert G. Kaiser, Washington Post, and Hannah Jopling Kaiser; Hedrick Smith, New York Times, and Susan Fox Smith; Kathleen Sullivan, CBS; George Will, columnist.
OTHER: Maureen Reagan, Republican National Committee co-chairman, and Dennis Revell.
ENTERTAINMENT by Van Cliburn, pianist.
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