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...recalled the scene last week, when Gamsakhurdia became the first popularly elected president of a Soviet republic. Georgia has much to fear from diehard imperialists in Moscow, but there is another, internal menace -- a growling presence in the garden. The republic is cursed by its own demography. In that sense, it is a microcosm of the U.S.S.R. More than 80 nationalities share a territory half the size of Arkansas. The new, breakaway leadership tends to behave toward its minorities the way the Kremlin -- starting with the Bolsheviks' first commissar of nationalities, the Georgian Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, alias Stalin -- has treated...
Unfortunately, Democratic primaries tend to attract diehard liberals, who tend to nominate liberal candidates. When the general election comes around, more conservative Democrats come out to vote--and choose the Republican nominee...
Among some observers, the inevitable question is whether "the Kremlin on the Charles" is ready for a diehard free market economist...
...MANY DIEHARD SUPPORTERS of Israel continue to insist that the U.S. needs Israel more than it needs its Arab allies. They cling to two basic strategic arguments...
...year -- but distribution. Farmers have been holding back produce from the state, hoping to make more lucrative cash and barter deals elsewhere. A crumbling transportation system has left crops rotting in the fields or in warehouses. Soviet citizens grumble that many of the delays are deliberate, the work of diehard local bureaucrats seeking to undermine Gorbachev. The very fact that many Soviets have been stockpiling foodstuffs at home, though it provides them a cushion against the future, has only added to the sense of shortages in the stores...