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Meanwhile, the view from Red Square is optimistic. A foreign policy official of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee predicts that Gorbachev will visit Beijing by 1990: "Two years to remove the two remaining obstacles -- that is a challenge for us, but one we can meet." If so, traveling salesmen will have paved the way for the General Secretary...
...these are at best partial and local answers to a problem that goes much deeper. The central question is whether technology may be pushing the fallible humans who operate it beyond their ability to make wise judgments instantly on the basis of what, with even the most sophisticated systems, will often be ambiguous information. This question applies not only in the Persian Gulf, but wherever there are fingers on buttons that can launch deadly weapons...
...festive red bunting and banners that had decorated the Soviet capital during the conference's four days of extraordinarily open debates and disputes. More substantively, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened the 13 voting members of the ruling Politburo, who in turn scheduled a plenum of the 307-member policymaking Central Committee for later this month. Its purpose, declared the Politburo, would be "to discuss questions concerning the practical realizations of measures noted in the conference documents...
...West tended to view the General Secretary as the event's big winner. "Gorbachev has proved to be an outstanding political tactician," said Eberhard Schulz, a specialist on Soviet affairs at West Germany's Foreign Policy Research Institute. "When it became evident in January 1987 that the Central Committee would not accept some of his changes, he stepped back and organized a party conference to get them through." Even so, most analysts warned that Gorbachev's success in winning institutional reform only underscored the largely unmet challenges of economic perestroika (restructuring). The conference featured several speeches by delegates complaining about...
...Central Committee meeting later this month may set a formal schedule for putting into effect the conference reforms. Gorbachev has suggested that voters will choose a new 2,250-member Congress of People's Deputies as early as next April. Elections for local and regional legislatures will probably be held in late 1989. But Gorbachev clearly will not sit idle in the interim. Last week a U.S. State Department official suggested that a grand gesture may be forthcoming from Moscow in the near future: the unilateral withdrawal of the 65,000 Soviet troops stationed in Hungary...