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...Moby-Dick II: Raise the Pequod," this book's centerpiece, contains equally clever satiric moments. Fraught with East-West intrigue and improbable plot developments, "Raise the Pequod" mocks both Clive Cussler, author of Raise the Titanic, and Tom Clancy...
...spinning out of control, splintering into warring ethnic fiefdoms and spewing a stream of refugees across Europe. But most Western analysts believe the future is less perilous. Autocracy might well return to the Soviet Union's political and economic life, or the country could break up. Either will strain East-West relations, but both sides have too much invested in cooperation to put their security at risk anew. Sovietologists agree that Cold War II is not at hand...
...even to slow the departure of Soviet troops. "The Soviet withdrawal will go ahead as planned," predicted Klaus Segbers of Germany's Institute for Science and Policy. But the convulsions will undermine Western confidence in the Soviets as a worthwhile economic and military partner. The rapid improvement in East-West relations depends on a reforming Soviet Union. If Moscow is turning the clock back, the West will find it hard to keep that partnership alive...
...refrain from further violence" or face possible curtailment of economic programs. While there are other reasons to postpone it, the White House said last week that the summit scheduled for Moscow next month is "clearly up in the air" after Vilnius. Says Michael Mandelbaum, director of the Project on East-West Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations: "My guess is that the Bush Administration will do as little as it decently can, for geopolitical reasons...
During 4 1/2 years in office, Shevardnadze did all that and more. His legacy is a world in which the decades-old fear of nuclear war between the two superpowers has almost vanished and East-West hostility is moving toward cooperation...