This has always happened of course: sometimes called gossip, sometimes the bush telegraph.

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Such statements by senior figures in the Bush Administration seem to designed to telegraph the bottom-line of the Helsinki summit: Gorbachev expects to be paid -- and paid handsomely -- for his country's "cooperation" in the Gulf crisis.

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