Word: commonwealths
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...from throwing in the towel, Gorbachev came out fighting, lambasting the leaders of Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine for their declaration of a "commonwealth" to replace the U.S.S.R. Yet in classic fashion Gorbachev managed to combine conciliation with combativeness...
Essentially he reiterated the case against the commonwealth -- then offered to help bring it about. Gorbachev still saw himself as the indispensable man, the only figure on the political stage who can avert civil war, who can keep the army under control, who can bring Slavs and Muslims together, who can prevent the hungry, angry, impatient populace from pouring into the streets and providing a pretext for another rightist coup...
...wish that were possible, but I have my doubts. I don't think the commonwealth is more promising than the proposed union treaty...
...heard many terms: union, confederation, commonwealth. You talk about a "soft" union. What do you mean...
...some questions for Yeltsin when he came to see me on Monday. "It's not clear to me what kind of commonwealth you're setting up," I said. "Both politically and legally, it's just a concept, a sketch, inviting all sorts of doubts and questions...