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Ivashko has prospered by carefully treading the centrist path and, like Gorbachev, making the best of the inevitable. Interviewed in his Kiev office shortly before he took up his new job, Ivashko insisted that "the Ukrainian people are masters of their own land." But complete separation from the union, he said, was "not politically, economically, socially or culturally feasible" for the Ukraine...
...piece of paper and insisted that Ukrainian extremists on the right and left ends -- whom he termed "people made of reinforced concrete" -- are small in number and impossible to satisfy. But what happens when the leadership itself is divided, as it is in the political triangle made up of centrist Gorbachev, radical Boris Yeltsin and conservative Ivan Polozkov, the new leader of the Russian republic's Communist Party? "Fate has brought these three to such a position that they have no right to be responsible just for themselves," replied Ivashko. "They are all aware of this and will cooperate...
...maverick populist, wanting to go further, faster in forcing the pace of reform. At times the two have seemed like Gorbachev's alter egos, the right and left boundary markers on his political horizon. But mostly they have been his rivals, vying to force him off the careful centrist course he has charted for himself...
...Saturday, Yeltsin was narrowly ahead of Polozkov in a key round of balloting, but failed to clinch the presidency. More feverish politicking is expected this week. One thing is certain: Gorbachev will continue trying to position himself as the centrist alternative to what he called in the interview "crazies" like Yeltsin on the left and the hard-liners on the right...
Georgians are of two minds about how to gain their freedom. The centrist Popular Front movement advocates working through the republic's supreme soviet to advance the cause of independence. The National Forum, a coalition of seven * political parties and national movements set up last month, rejects any form of cooperation with what it calls the Soviet "puppet" government. The group wants to hold alternative elections for a new national congress...