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Clinton's Russia-first emphasis is understandable but needs to be moderated. "We resisted blackmail when Russia was strong," says Henry Kissinger. "Does it make sense to permit Moscow to blackmail us now with its domestic weakness?" The problem, says Council on Foreign Relations president Leslie Gelb, in an insight several Administration aides agree is "right on," is that Clinton "is determined to avoid being tagged with having lost Russia. Yet it should be obvious that democracy in Russia will be won or lost almost exclusively by the Russians themselves." And if reform fails in Russia, says James Baker...
...London the forgotten silent-film star Norma Desmond skulked around her overdecorated mansion like a female Phantom of the Opera, remote and unreachable. In Los Angeles, even as she rages like a deranged diva, she shows endearing glints of awareness of her own tawdry emotional blackmail. A single image encapsulates the difference. When London's Norma, Patti LuPone, got her seedy protege back, by a suicide attempt, she collapsed into his arms in maudlin gratitude. The Los Angeles incarnation, Glenn Close, ends the act by lifting her bandaged arms above his embracing form, her fingers curving like talons to take...
...fruitful cooperation end in an icy schism? In A Most Dangerous Method (Knopf; $30), John Kerr, a clinical psychologist who has seen new diaries, letters and journals, argues that the growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named Sabina Spielrein had also been Jung's mistress; Jung in turn surmised that Freud had become involved with his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays. Both antagonists in this standoff held bombshells that could blow each other's reputation from Vienna...
...diaries included entries that could lay bare the sextracurricular activities of at least two other legislators -- including a Senator's divorce and his "extended affair" with a staff member, and a liaison between a Senate aide and a member of the House leadership. Last week when colleagues shouted "Blackmail!" Packwood coolly responded on the Senate floor, "I have no intention of ever using it for blackmail, graymail or anything else, but I want the Senate to clearly understand that it is the ethics committee that has demanded the production of the pages...
...contrast, Yeltsin has sought to safeguard Russia's relations with the West by more subtle muscle-flexing. Economic blackmail and "rouge" army units have been his weapons to coerce the former republics into the Moscowdominated Commonwealth of Independent States. He seems willing to allow Russia's neighbors to retain the trappings of sovereignty, provided Moscow has the final say on important policy questions...