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...diplomatic two-step. Moscow has resisted withdrawing its controversial contingent of military advisers from Iraq -- numbered at anywhere from 500 to 1,000 -- until their contracts expire, but has provided the Pentagon with information on Soviet military hardware there. After the Soviets voted to enforce the sanctions, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze stressed that "we have no plans to use force or take part in such operations...
...Even before the latest crisis, Moscow and Washington had begun to cooperate on other trouble spots: in Central America, southern Africa and Southeast Asia. Last week they joined diplomatic forces again, first at the United Nations, then at the meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. That was the bright spot in last week's scary news. Therein lies the makings of something that Saddam never intended and Dulles would never have foreseen: an anti-Baghdad pact forged in Washington and Moscow -- an unprecedented and highly promising U.S.-Soviet joint venture in regional security...
Though the ground for last week's pact had been prepared in six meetings between foreign ministers Eduard Shevardnadze and Hans-Dietrich Genscher over the past two months, Kohl had no reason to expect Gorbachev would agree so quickly. The Soviet leader clearly wanted to settle the issue of German unification so he could move on to his country's domestic problems. But the atmosphere surely helped. By the time they made their announcement, the two men were laughing together. Observes a Western diplomat in Moscow: "It may come as a surprise, but Kohl and Gorbachev kind of like each...
...Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze disappeared behind closed doors in Paris last week, the expectation was that they would work out some new approach to the problem of Afghanistan. But when Baker emerged two hours later, few were ready for the announcement he made...
...organizational tinkering. It is opening up a range of ideas and influences no one could have imagined under the old ways. Even a year ago, an analysis of the policy debate in Moscow would have focused almost exclusively on party leaders, the well-known Gorbachev allies like Politburo member Eduard Shevardnadze and equally prominent opponents like Politburo member Yegor Ligachev and former Moscow party chief Boris Yeltsin. Today new approaches and fledgling political parties are emerging across the spectrum, from Gorbachev's left to his far right, reshaping Soviet politics. Some of the most influential advocates of the new approaches...