Word: counterview
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offers a counterview. "The intelligence community still believes that ((Foreign Minister Alexander)) Bessmertnykh thinks like Shevardnadze, and that he is calling the important shots," says an aide to Secretary of State James Baker. "Their view is that Bessmertnykh has his own line of communication to Baker and that Komplektov's well-known tough views mean that he will be a figurehead ambassador only. The theory is that Bessmertnykh and Gorbachev have cleverly thrown a bone to the conservatives, and that Komplektov can do less damage in Washington than in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow...
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