(Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Secretary Eduard Shevardnadze
met on the eve of the recent super-power summit.)

What can we do to impress the Americans? Gorbachev asked
Shevardnadze.

Replied the foreign secretary: Well, we could open the gates of
the Soviet Union for 24 hours.

Dont be crazy, Gorbachev replied. Everybody would go and
it would leave only the two of us sitting here.

Speak for yourself, shot back Shevardnadze.