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By Ned Zeman

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Was the Madrid summit the last time George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev will meet one-on-one as international equals? Leaving their joint press conference, Bush told Gorbachev, "You're a master." But the remark was just a courtesy, administration sources say. Bush has concluded that Gorbachev's power is steadily diminishing, the sources say, and the administration must deal directly with the republics. Bush was particularly troubled by Gorbachev's insistence that massive Western aid could solve all the Soviet Union's problems. "People are realizing that Gorbachev is becoming irrelevant," says a top Bush aide.

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