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...furor over Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation had the air of a dry run for a much bigger event that suddenly seemed entirely plausible: Mikhail Gorbachev himself quits in disgust or exhaustion or defeat, and the world is abruptly confronted not just with a new Soviet leader but a new -- or perhaps an old -- Soviet Union...
...American advice to wait and see did not sit well with the West Europeans, who could see how Gorbachev was transforming their continent. Meanwhile, East European reformers argued to Bush that the success of their own programs depended on the continuation of perestroika, and Eduard Shevardnadze convinced Baker that perestroika depended on Gorbachev's ability to control the change without resorting to a violent crackdown...
...podium almost as soon as the Congress of People's Deputies opened last week. Charging that Gorbachev had lost the "moral right to lead the country," she moved a vote of no confidence in him. It failed, 1,288 to 426, but the spectacle was deeply unsettling to Eduard Shevardnadze, who asked in his resignation speech, "Is this normal...
Shortly before he became head of the Soviet Communist Party in March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev ambled along a Black Sea beach with his old friend Eduard Shevardnadze, the party chief in Georgia, discussing what needed to be done. "We were walking and talking," Gorbachev recalled later. "We compared notes. He said that everything was rotten through...
...first time in the postwar era, the Soviet government now puts its needs -- and its fears -- ahead of its pride. During three days of talks in Houston and Washington, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze admitted that the Soviet Union required food, medicine and loans to survive a winter of shortages unparalleled since the end of World War II. In response, President Bush overturned 16 years of trade policy and agreed to back loans worth up to $1 billion. He also offered emergency medical aid and proposed that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank provide experts to reinvent the Soviet...