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When freedom broke out across Eastern Europe last year, Soviet spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov enunciated "the Sinatra Doctrine." Each newly liberated Soviet satellite, he explained, was now free...
...allay Moscow's anxieties. At the summit the Soviets repeated their call for a replacement for both NATO and the Warsaw Pact: a vaguely defined "Greater European Council," which would be part of the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Said Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov: "We want a united Germany to be integrated into an all-European system...
Touche, Ivan. But the argument is worth following one more step. Gorbachev has infinitely greater might on his side than Lincoln did in the Civil War, but considerably less right. And he knows it. Unlike Lincoln, Gorbachev has already conceded secession in principle. His ever droll spokesman, Gennadi Gerasimov, talks about divorce. By setting a price on its property in Lithuania, Moscow has opened negotiations on alimony...
...what are the bases protecting? At a media conference in Manila last week, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov asked, "Suppose the bases go tomorrow -- where's the threat?" The Soviets, he insisted, "will not fill the vacuum." American planners are not so sure of that. Subic is strategically situated across the China Sea from Cam Ranh Bay, the former U.S. naval base in Viet Nam, which now berths about 20 Soviet warships...
Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said in Moscow that the Soviet Union wants guarantees that Germany will pose no military threat. Neutrality is one way to achieve that goal -- but not the only way. "Our concern," he added, "is that war never again be unleashed from German soil." Western diplomats believe the Genscher plan will eventually carry the day, with Moscow reluctantly going along...