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Ironically, it was the success of his efforts to democratize the political order that ultimately pushed Gorbachev hardest. Six years, ago Paul Goble, a leading expert on Soviet nationalities and now a State Department adviser, wrote that Gorbachev would eventually discover he could make liberalism work in Russia, but that a significantly liberalized union of 15 republics was a contradiction in terms. "Like Lincoln before him," says a senior U.S. analyst in Washington, "Gorbachev has decided that he doesn't want to preside over the dissolution of his own country." By opting to hold on to the union, Gorbachev chose...
IRAQ. Early in the gulf crisis, the Bush Administration realized that it would be unwise to liquidate the country's military altogether. "If Iraq is totally out of the picture," says William Quandt, a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution, "there is no counterbalance to Iran." At the same time, the U.S. and its allies are determined to wipe out Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and seriously impair its conventional war machine. Reconciling those two aims requires a delicate balancing act. "You want an Iraq weak enough that it can't threaten the weakest of its neighbors...
Sabi shabtai, Los Angeles-based terrorism expert, discussing the chances that the university might be targeted by terrorists...
...facing certain defeat and quite possibly his own annihilation choose war? Three answers are possible. One is that Saddam believes his enemies will cave in. He has said as much on innumerable occasions, and he still "seems to believe that we lack the will," says a Bush Administration expert on the Middle East. Another possibility is that Saddam honestly believes he can win. "The Americans will come here to perform acrobatics like Rambo movies," Saddam declared last Friday. "But they will find here real people to fight them. We are a people who have eight years of experience...
Guatemala's new President, who scored a smashing victory last week, personifies the rapid gains being made by his fellow Pentecostalists and other Evangelicals throughout Latin America. The Roman Catholic Church faces "a serious crisis," says one expert, and its hierarchy is jittery...