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...still think I would have decided to support him." Despite her pride in what she called "the tremendous breakthrough" of perestroika, she says the past seven years were full of "traumatic events" and that 1991 was "tragic." She cited "the 73 hours spent under arrest" in the hands of coup plotters last August, "the betrayal by people who had worked closely with my husband," the collapse of the economy, "the rupturing of the spiritual links of our culture," and the dismembering of the Soviet Union. "I cannot regard Ukraine as some kind of foreign country," she said. "Ukraine...
...women on the Review told me it was such a coup to get my position [of articles editors]," Riles said. "I think most of the women at the Review feel this...
Some of Gorbachev's assessments betray wishful thinking about what might have been. He blames the August coup attempt for making any efforts to overhaul the Communist Party and introduce a more measured program of market reforms "impossible." The putsch certainly accelerated the breakup of the Soviet state, but it is debatable whether Gorbachev would have achieved either aim had the hard-liners not made their move. By the summer of 1991, Kremlin power was already ebbing away to republican leaders like Russia's Boris Yeltsin; the party was clearly headed for a schism. It is also doubtful, as Gorbachev...
...therein, ironically, lies part of the reason for the February coup. In the '70s, when Perez first served as President, the world price of oil tripled. Suddenly awash in petrodollars, Perez's government splurged on public $ works and inefficient state-owned enterprises. Kickbacks, bribes and currency scams became fairly common business practices. The middle class could patronize private clinics and schools. Since almost everyone had a piece of the action, few complained...
...three operational sets of such devices: Yeltsin has one, which can be used only in conjunction with another set controlled by Defense Minister Yevgeni Shaposhnikov. A third system is usually held by the Defense Ministry and can replace either of the other two. But after last year's aborted coup, Western intelligence lost sight of the third football, and officials were forced to ponder the implications of a nuclear fumble. Now the intelligence boys have cleared up the mystery: the third football is safe in the hands of the Defense Ministry chief of staff. Civilian power may be in flux...