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Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder went home to Richmond last week to deliver the most surprising speech of his four-month presidential campaign. In his State of the Commonwealth address, he stunned legislators by announcing the end of his quest for the Democratic nomination. Wilder took a page from New York Governor Mario Cuomo's book, saying he had chosen to devote himself to "guiding Virginia through these difficult times . . . as my pledge and responsibilities demand...
...Gamsakhurdia, triumphantly announced, "A new democratic Georgia has been born." But has it? The men who took over are just as strongly nationalistic and authoritarian as Gamsakhurdia, leaving it unclear what political changes they might make. Nor was it known whether the new leadership would move to join the Commonwealth of Independent States that groups together 11 other former Soviet republics. For now, Georgia seems to be playing a perilous lone hand...
Boris Yeltsin and friends seem to be losing their enthusiasm for Minsk. When the leaders of the three Slavic republics announced the replacement of the Soviet Union by a Commonwealth of Independent States on Dec. 8, they declared that the Commonwealth's seat of government would be Minsk. Minsk? Minsk, the capital of Belorussia, is 400 miles southwest of Moscow. It was a way of signaling the break between the old union and the new Commonwealth...
...subpoena power, and witnesses who appear before it must testify under oath. For those reasons, its probe stands a better chance than previous investigations of unearthing enough evidence to determine whether the search for missing Americans should be continued. Moreover, the replacement of the Soviet Union by a new Commonwealth of Independent States seeking good relations with the U.S. could permit American investigators to learn at last what Moscow knows about the MIAs...
...time to provide economic aid to pro-reform republics of the new Commonwealth of Independent States. Russia and any other republics that break decisively with their communist past in 1992 deserve our help no less than did the new democracies of Eastern Europe in 1989. To put it bluntly, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and those like him in other republics must not fail...