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More than Arab pressure, however, may be riling Gorbachev. Seventy percent of the work force of the departing Jews are professionals and technicians. "The brain-drain issue is really worrying the Soviet legislature," says a U.S. diplomat based in Moscow. Perhaps for that reason, the Soviet parliament last week postponed until September adoption of a new emigration law that would permit almost all Jews to leave the country. But even with the remaining restrictions, Israel is enjoying a windfall from Moscow's brain drain. The newcomers offer expertise in fields ranging from medicine and engineering to computer technology and nuclear...
Would Castro moderate his hard line in exchange for an end to TV Marti, or a relaxation of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba? "Unless Fidel believes we will actually walk away if he doesn't deal, he won't deal," says a Soviet diplomat. "And he is nowhere close to thinking that." Castro knows that Cuba is for Gorbachev what abortion is for Bush -- a touchstone issue for core conservatives. But "responsible people are increasingly upset about subsidizing a man who thumbs his nose at us," says a Soviet official. "If Gorbachev decides to take on the conservatives over...
...first, Aung San Suu Kyi will need to get her own political party in order. "There's no ruling out the possibility that the National League for Democracy and the opposition in general could succumb to the old Burmese disease of factionalism," warns a Western diplomat based in Rangoon. Excessive wrangling within the league would provide the military junta with a convenient excuse to delay a transfer of power...
...extraordinarily candid commentary in the Communist theoretical magazine Qiushi (Seeking Truth) last month, "it will invite calamity or will even be forced to step down." In the absence of ambitious goals like the economic and political liberalization policies set by fallen party chief Zhao Ziyang, says a Western diplomat in Beijing, "politics becomes a question of how you achieve stability best." At the moment, two approaches are vying for approval...
...successors to Deng can spin such sentiments into a platform of action, however, as long as the so-called gang of elders is watching their every move. "It's too dangerous for one to raise his head above the crowd for fear of having it chopped off," observes a diplomat...