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...Russia. As President Boris Yeltsin prepares to do battle with hard-line opponents at the Congress of People's Deputies this week, Russians are braced for another bruising power struggle. After seven years of political turbulence, the country is highly sensitized to trouble. Rumors of a coup, a dictatorship, social upheaval have raced through the capital. But something else has happened as well. Most of Russia's 150 million citizens are taking the latest crisis in stride, indifferent to all the fuss in Moscow. However imperfect their experiment in democracy has proved so far, they have gained confidence that...
...strong President without sliding into totalitarian rule. Yeltsin is still feeling his way. Whenever he begins to talk tough in response to turmoil in the ethnic enclaves of the Russian Federation or the latest challenge from parliament, the opposition immediately warns of a coming dictatorship...
Rokhsar further compared my alleged actions to something he "expected to witness in elections in a remote Middle Eastern dictatorship [are there elections in dictatorships?] like Syria, and not on the campus of an elite learning institution." I urge Rokhsar to keep things in perspective. If we are indeed students of an elite learning institution, one would think Harvard students have more intelligence and character than to blindly vote for someone because I supposedly told them...
When he was in the Kremlin, he began the effort to transform a dictatorship into a civil society and "a law-based state." The current hearings are intended as a continuation of that process. If Gorbachev were to have his day in court and rebut the hard-liners, it might help the liberal justices block the reactionaries and keep alive his own proudest legacy...
After the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988, President-elect Bush was faced, according to a State Department study, with deciding whether "to treat Iraq as a distasteful dictatorship to be shunned where possible, or to recognize Iraq's present and potential power in the region and accord it relatively high priority . . . ((with)) steady relations concentrating on trade." Bush eventually, and not without justification, chose the latter course. On Oct. 2, 1989, he signed National Security Directive 26, setting out the ways in which closer ties with Iraq were to be achieved, including "nonlethal forms of military assistance...