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...what about the notion, raised in Brest, of joint command...
...Look at the way Yeltsin behaved. We handled the whole union-treaty process together, sent it to the republics and suddenly Yeltsin comes up with a different approach in Brest. I cannot accept this. He didn't even call me. I found out that he had talked with George Bush and not to me. There was no need to draw Bush into this. It's a question of Yeltsin's moral standards. I cannot approve or justify this style of behavior. It's inadmissible...
...PEACE OF BREST-LITOVSK...
...surprisingly, The Peace of Brest-Litovsk was suppressed for more than two decades. When it finally debuted in 1987, however, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev attended the premiere; afterward he endorsed the play and embraced its leading actor, his friend Mikhail Ulyanov. One version has Gorbachev saying, "That is me. That is me." Playwright Mikhail Shatrov, 58, says that the actual words were more restrained but that Gorbachev openly drew parallels between Lenin's reluctant peace with imperial Germany and his own reform and retrenchment. Thus the staging of Shatrov's text became a political as well as an artistic event...
...winner is . . . Mark A. Brest van Kempen, 28, a graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute. His idea is to set down a granite ring, 6 ft. in diameter, with an earth-filled 6-in.-diameter hole in the center. An inscription will read, THIS SOIL AND THE AIR SPACE EXTENDING ABOVE IT SHALL NOT BE PART OF ANY NATION AND SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY ENTITY'S JURISDICTION...