insider

by Nancy Perry Graham

**Hollywood's unlikeliest**

power couple? How about **Jim Carrey** and **Henry Kissinger** breaking bread at Spago? The pair were spotted at the L.A. eatery the other evening with friends, including **Milos Forman**, who's directing *Man on the Moon*, in which Carrey plays the late comedian **Andy Kaufman**. According to Kissinger's spokeswoman, the former Secretary of State "has always admired Carrey's work and wanted to meet him."

**If director James**

**Cameron** seems fixated on all things below sea level (*Titanic*, *The Abyss*), his girlfriend, actress **Suzy Amis** (who played Rose's granddaughter in *Titanic*), has had her head in the clouds. At the recent Moving Picture Ball in L.A. honoring **Arnold Schwarzenegger**, where she and Cameron were co-zily inseparable companions throughout the evening, Amis told me that for her next film role she is considering something with an aeronautical theme. Aviation seems to run in the blood. Amis's grandfather and father co-designed a twin-engine prop plane, and two of her brothers are licensed pilots. Amis, who flies a Cessna, says she is still working on getting her own pilot's license.

**Another Hollywood**

couple, **Pam Dawber** and **Mark Harmon**, are already teaming up on the big

screen. *I'll Remember April*, a World War II drama, casts Dawber (*My Sister Sam*) and Harmon (*Chicago Hope*) as a married couple whose next-door neighbors, a family of Japanese Americans, are sent off to an internment camp. Dawber has otherwise kept busy raising the Harmons' two children, **Sean**, 10, and **Ty**, 6.

**Welcome to Hollywood,**

the newest movie from *Swingers* producer **Brad Schlei**, is a mock documentary (premiering Oct. 28) about an obscure young actor's rise to stardom. Along the way some real

Hollywood celebs are interviewed in the film about what it takes to become a star. Advises **Cuba Gooding Jr.**: "Endure, endure, endure." Director **John Waters**: "A star is somebody you'd like to get drunk with or have sex with that looks better than anyone in your community." Director **Ron Howard**: "I think the stars that last are actually good writers. Through their own ability to create as they go [along], they elevate almost every project that they do." **Sandra Bullock's** answer is, at the very least, the most succinct: "A good butt."

**And now, womaning**

the register at Manhattan's Great American Health Bar: **Cindy Crawford**. No, the supermodel hasn't taken part-time work making change; she simply covered the counter temporarily while her pal, manager Masud Mohammed, stepped off to make her a cappuccino. Though Crawford chatted easily with surprised customers, this won't be a regular gig. Says Mohammed: "She is the most expensive cashier in the world."

Additional reporting
by Hugh McCarten

Cindy Crawford proves a counter-fit worker.

Cuba Gooding Jr. offers en-
during advice for wannabes.

James Cameron makes a perfect copilot for Suzy Amis.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: GREGORY PACE/SYGMA; MIRANDA SHEN/CELEBRITY PHOTO; FRANK TRAPPER/SYGMA

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# U.S. Cultural Institute
## Opens in Berlin

By WILLIAM DROZDIAK
Washington Post Foreign Service

BERLIN, Nov. 6—When the last U.S. troops left Berlin in 1994 after serving as democracy's sentinel for nearly half a century, many Germans and Americans wondered how a partnership forged in the days of the Cold War could be sustained for future generations.

In an enlightened attempt to replace those departed soldiers with a new army of scholars, artists, critics and writers, the American Academy of Berlin was formally inaugurated today as part of a privately funded initiative to bolster American influence in the renaissance capital of a reunited Germany.

"We are picking up the torch carried for 50 years by soldiers in a different context," said Henry Kissinger, the German-born immigrant who became U.S. secretary of state and now serves as the academy's honorary chairman. "If this initiative proves as successful for the next 50 years, the whole world will be better off."

The idea of a grand American cultural institution at the heart of Berlin's vibrant intellectual scene was conceived four years ago by then-U.S. ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, who has widowed the project between his diplomatic chores as special U.S. envoy in the Balkans and his investment banking activities as vice chairman for Credit Suisse First Boston.

"We wanted to create a living institution, not a monument or museum," Holbrooke said. "No other country has such unique ties with the United States. We must not let them die out with the wartime generation."

The project assumed greater significance as the U.S. cultural and diplomatic presence in many European countries has been sharply curtailed by budget cuts imposed by the Republican-led Congress. Despite Germany's influence as the continent's most powerful economy, the popular U.S. cultural centers known as Amerika Haus have been shut down in four cities.

The German-American partnership in the postwar era was nurtured by common security threats. But since the demise of the Soviet Union, the two countries have experienced a growing estrangement as Germany places higher priority on achieving European unity while the United States has shifted its attention to other hot spots around the world.

At a time when Europe's center of gravity is shifting toward Berlin and Germany is embarking on a new era of political leadership, Holbrooke said it was in "America's critical national interest" to maintain an influential cultural profile in the sprawling metropolis that once served as the power base of Hitler's Third Reich.

Berlin Mayor Eberhard Diegen, who has led this year's 50th

anniversary celebrations of the Allied airlift that ensured the survival of 2 million Berliners when the Soviet army cut off ground access to the Western sectors, described the academy as an "intellectual bridge" that will link younger generations with no first-hand understanding of the Cold War connection.

The seed money for the academy was a $3 million donation from the family of the late Hans Arnold, once a leader of Berlin's financial community and a prominent patron of the 1920s artistic scene. The academy will occupy the 40-room lakeside mansion in which the Arnold family lived before seeking refuge in the United States.

Arnhold's daughter and son-in-law, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen, a prominent couple in New York's cultural and banking community, offered the founding grant when Berlin's city government provided the family mansion on a rent-free basis. During the occupation of Berlin, the villa served as a recreation center for the U.S. Army before it was turned over to the city.

"This house has always reserved a special place for culture," said Anna-Maria Kellen after dining in her family home for the first time in 64 years. "It's reassuring to know that its role will be preserved by the influx of so many writers and artists."

The first group of eight fellows arrived early this autumn, headed by playwright Arthur Miller. Others include poet C.K. Williams, writer Robert Koplowitz, historians Gerald D. Feldman and Brian Ladd, legal scholar Kendall Thomas, drama teacher Gautan Dasgupta and architectural critic Diana Ketcham.

"This is really a special kind of American presence in Germany, albeit in very concentrated form," said Feldman, a professor on leave from the University of California at Berkeley. "There is a new mutual awareness, and an important part of our role is the impact of our thinking and our work on the Germans."

Holbrooke, who is renowned for his skills at shaking the money-tree for donations in the private sector, said the academy has raised $12 million so far but is aiming for a permanent endowment of $40 million. He said the academy requires $2.5 million a year to maintain its operations and that he was determined to use formidable persuasive skills to keep the academy thriving.

Sounding a cautionary note to recalcitrant donors, Kissinger cited Holbrooke's persistence in broker-ing peace deals in the Balkans and urged them to reach for their wallets in a gesture of surrender. "Believe me, you will find it more painful to refuse him than to bow to his wishes."

## Something About Mary

"Newspapering is not just the normal thing, it is the only thin-Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist who would be able to do it." McGroery as she received the National Club's Fourth Estate Award Thur The Washington Post columnist didn't really want the dinner and I was telling the crowd she feared a tale that would leave attendees "tired and the recipient with two options or die, neither of which appeals."

Fortunately, it wasn't remotely judging from the looks on the face of VIPs as Walter Cronkite, Peter Jern former Democratic presidential candidate, Gene McCarthy and a few priests who are close friends. Sen. Ted Kserenased McGroery with a person version of George M. Cohan's "Grand Old Name."

New York Times columnist M called her chum from the defunct Star "the most luminous writer a thinker in the business." She adn McGroery's unflagging ability to be cute guy reporters" was one reason decided to become a columnist.

## Political Ties

Call it the Bow Tie Caucus. P columnist George Will and D.C. I Anthony Williams were spotted at Bistro Frangais in Georgetown each other up over sandwiches a window seat. And yes, both were their signature neckwear.

## Musicians Run Amok

Violent musicians in the new man Liam Gallagher flew off the

## DOONESBURY

## The Singing

MECIAR, From G1

To the tune of a Slovak folk crooned, "Farewell, I leave you, hurt, I never hurt any of you."

Choking back tears, he waved a

A nation, it seemed, had not the lonely eyes to him.

The next day, a disc jockey in B Slovakia's capital, remixed Meciar with "Just Be Good to Me," a 198 club hit by Beats International.

And the 1-minute, 40-second called "DJ Meciar," has taken the try's nightclubs by storm.

Jeljina, but later stopped.
The third arrest of war-crimes
spects in Bosnia by NATO-led

deal with the warring parties
In another blow to Karadzic

crimes against humankind.
Mr. Jelisic, who referred to him-

ment said.

assures Clinton

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Middle East after his meeting with President Clinton.

calls for eradication of Israel

ber all the articles an-
the PNC [Palestine Na-
cil's] April 1996 ac-
raised the letter as "an
to keep towards complet-
cess of revising the

rinians "have agreed
articles are null and
there seems to be a
it is the process of
ur that they are null
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tant step in that di-
Albright said.
praised his meeting
ent. "It was encour-

er called the meet-
clinton "excellent."
se to the Palesti-
ne talks did not go

edications that Mr.
an other meeting
nt today.

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disclosed that he
ally visit the Ho-
after several days
dis-invitations.
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omorrow if my

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load to peace, the
said that "in
ill continue and

audience that

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin lost his life at the hands of
an Israeli extremist after embark-
ing on this road.

"The Palestinians had request-
ed that the president forcefully re-
iterate the basic principles of the
peace process — especially land
for peace — and they are pleased
that he did," said James Zogby,
president of the Arab-American
Institute.

The Palestinians insist that Is-
rael withdraw from more of the
West Bank.

Mr. Arafat demanded yesterday
that Israel turn over 60 percent
more of the West Bank. The Pale-
tinians have asked in the past for a
30 percent pullback. Israel has so a
far withdrawn from 27 percent of
the territory.

Mr. Clinton told Mr. Arafat he
wanted Israel to withdraw from at
least 10 percent of the West Bank
East peace talks, said Saeb Erekat,
a senior adviser to Mr. Arafat. He
quoted the president, as saying, "I
want a credible and significant [Is-
raeli] redeployment. I want two
digits."

Despite a renewed White House
effort on the peace process, Arab
diplomatic sources said Mr. Arafat
the scandal could leave Mr. Clinton
too weak politically to bring effec-
tive pressure on the Israeli govern-
ment for concessions.

● Ben Barber contributed to this
article.

Kissinger flays
'radical right' on
bailout for Asia

Says GOP imperils IMF funding

By Richard S. Ehrlich
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

1/23/96

$19 billion of extra money for the
IMF.

Only 30.5 percent of the 1,007
likely voters surveyed favor help
for Asia, while 17.3 percent were
not sure.

Nevertheless, a "serious effort"
must be made to help Thailand, he
said. "It's difficult at the moment
to do it in the form of appropriating
funds, so we have to be ingenious
in finding other ways to do it."

Aides in Mr. Kissinger's Wash-
ington office said the former sec-
retary of state had scheduled a re-
sort vacation in Thailand when he
was asked to speak to yesterday's
gathering, which was organized by
the American Chamber of Com-
merce.

He has previously been an im-
portant advocate of most-favored-
nation trading status for China. He
has also served as an adviser for
the Business Coalition for U.S.-
China Trade, a group of companies
with business interests in China.

Mr. Kissinger, appearing portly
and cracking jokes, was equally
tough on Thai politicians, telling
them the IMF program of eco-
nomic belt-tightening "is what we
could colloquially call 'the only
game in the world'."

"I read a lot [saying] this is a
great American conspiracy to take
over the industries" and other as-
sets of Asia, "and that we want to
weaken Asia because it is getting
too competitive," Mr. Kissinger
said of Asia's monetary meltdown.

"We are not that smart. We are
not that well-organized. If this
were the case, actually it would be
easier to deal with it."

Despite his concern about Thai-
land's economy, Mr. Kissinger said
he did not believe the crisis would
destabilize the Thai government.
"There is no possibility of a signifi-
cant political crisis," he said.

Mr. Kissinger also announced
that he and former Thai Prime
Minister Anand Panyarachun had
recently became co-chairmen of a
new U.S. Corporate Campaign for
Thailand, which will be managed
by the Kenan Institute.

Funds from the U.S. Agency for
International Development and
other sources were used to create
the Kenan Institute Asia more than
a year ago in Bangkok. It is linked
to the William R. Kenan Jr. Chari-
table Trust at the University of
North Carolina.

BANGKOK — Former Secre-
tary of State Henry Kissinger said
yesterday that isolationist tenden-
cies in Congress will make it hard
to find funding for the IMF-led
bailout of Asia and suggested that
"ingenious" methods may have to
be found.

At the same time he told Thai
businessmen that their country
has no choice but to go along with
the tough measures prescribed by
the International Monetary Fund
and dismissed suspicions that the
Asian meltdown is an American
plot.

Mr. Kissinger, a longtime advo-
cate of better relations with China,
said in a speech to some 400 busi-
nessmen and diplomats that U.S.
lawmakers considering the Asia
bailout should remember that
Thailand was America's "com-
trade-in-arms" during the Vietnam
War and helped fight Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein.

Thailand provided military
bases for U.S. warplanes to launch
massive bombing runs against
Vietnam and Laos during the
1960s and early 1970s.

But, Mr. Kissinger said, "a
whole new generation of congress-
men and senators have come into
office, and a frightening percent-
age of them don't even have a pass-
port."

"They are also younger than the
people that were there when I was
in high office. So it is a totally dif-
ferent atmosphere," he said.

Mr. Kissinger, who served in the
Nixon and Ford administrations,
said he was sorry that conserva-
tive Republicans seemed unwilling
to help Thailand even though
the country was in danger of fall-
ing under Chinese influence other-
wise.

"The radical Republican right,
which is very anti-Chinese, would
want to strengthen Thailand" to
keep it out of Beijing's orbit, he
nese, but they also don't want to
engage in foreign aid.

A poll conducted by Zogby In-
ternational for Reuters news agen-
cy and released yesterday found
that 52.2 percent of Americans dis-
approve of the Clinton administra-
tion's request to Congress for some

owing test ban treaty vote

missile control pacts first

quirements on know sooner rather than lat-
ive order."

which limits deployment of mis-
siles to shoot down incoming bal-
listic missile warheads.

THE WASHINGTON POST

David S. Broder

‘Fraternizing
With
The Enemy’

MARSHFIELD, Wis.—It was a day of fascinating but mixed messages, of good humor masking once-simmering feuds, of warm nostalgia cloaking serious warnings about the deteriorating climate of our politics.

The dedication last week of the Melvin R. Laird Center, an addition to the Marshfield Clinic, a world-class medical research facility, brought together notables from both parties and hometown friends of the 75-year-old Laird, who represented this part of central Wisconsin for 16 years in the House, before becoming secretary of defense in the first Nixon administration. It was a day filled with laughter but marked unmistakably by a lament for the vanished civility that characterized the Congress where Laird was a leader in the 1950s and 1960s.

The tone was set by former president Gerald R. Ford, himself a product and embodiment of the time when, as he said, "We had adversaries, not enemies," in politics. "How proud your partner John Fogarty would be of you today," he said to Laird.

Fogarty, a Rhode Island liberal Democrat, was chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee for the departments of Labor and (as it was then called) Health, Education and Welfare, and Laird was the senior Republican on

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Melvin R. Laird

A day with Mel
Laird and some old
friends.

that panel. Together, they helped build
the National Institutes of Health and
channeled support to private research
centers like the Marshfield Clinic, fi-
nancing medical breakthroughs that
have extended and improved the lives
of millions.

Laird was both a skilled legislator and a great political schemer. He helped engineer successive internal Republican coups that made Ford the House minority leader. After Spiro Agnew's forced resignation, he convinced Nixon that Ford should be appointed to the vice presidency, and he talked Ford into taking the job that, a few months later, led to the presidency.

But like others of his generation, he
did his work with a twinkle in his eye
that left plenty of room for fellowship.
And so the speakers included not just
Ford and two other former Republican
leaders of the House—John Rhodes of
Arizona and Bob Michel of Illinois—
but two Democrats with whom Laird
has had profound policy disagree-
ments.

One was former senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, an early and ardent opponent of the Vietnam War and vigorous critic of the protracted timetable for American disengagement Laird set at the Pentagon. But, as Nelson recalled, "politics was more user-friendly then," and he and Laird had been drinking buddies since they met in Madison as members of the state Senate in 1949. "Today," Nelson said, in a tone of wonderment and regret, members of Congress are told that "fraternizing with the enemy is frowned upon," but he and Laird never regarded their Washington nights out as "a treasonable offense."

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The other Democrat was Laird's successor in the House, Rep. David Obey, a favorite liberal target of the self-styled Republican "revolutionaries" who have come to Congress in recent years. Obey is now the ranking minority member of the same appropriations subcommittee where Laird made his mark. As Laird formed a partnership with Fogarty, Obey has worked well with Republican subcommittee chairman John Edward Porter of Illinois.

But for weeks now, they have been
forced to stand on the House floor
fighting off one ideological amend-
ment after another from people who
either want to hamstring government
or make it the servant of their pet
philosophical causes. Those who re-
gard Porter's partnership with Obey as
a betrayal of Republican principles
would not have laughed as hard as the
audience here did at Obey's admission
that "in 1952, as a Young Republican, I
delivered Laird's literature at half the
homes in Wausau—an act for which I
have been doing penance in Gaylord
Nelson's confessional ever since."

But the humorless zealots of today's
House, need to hear what President
Ford said: "You have to listen to lead,
and it's pretty hard to listen when you
are screaming at each other."

Just when the atmosphere was get-
ting a little too chummy, Henry Kissin-
ger stepped up to recall the many
power struggles he had, as Nixon's
national security adviser, with Secre-
tary of Defense Laird.

"I always sent deputies to deal with him," Kissinger deadpanned, "and I would give them several pieces of advice. First, you must remember Mel Laird is extremely smart. Second, he knows he is extremely smart. Third, he will let you know he is extremely smart. Fourth, it is much less painful to let him do what he wants. Fifth, when he says, 'You know what I mean,' there is no conceivable way you could know what he means. And sixth, when he calls to complain about a newspaper story, you know he has put it out himself."

It was great to be reminded that
politics can be a game where you don't
try to obliterate people; you just needle
them.