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What about those other reasons, so persuasive sounding a short time ago, why Gorbachev would not do what he has now done? What about the party as the glue that keeps the empire together? An adviser to Gorbachev says the back-to-back crises in the Baltics and the Caucasus were a disabusing revelation for him. He saw Lithuanian Communists declare their independence from the central party. The Lithuanian party was playing a leading role all right; it was leading the way to secession. And then, at the height of the civil war in Azerbaijan, angry citizens of Baku tore...
...Some glue! In both cases party membership in the provinces was more like plastic explosive...
...help restore Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. What could an electronic filing system in some Vatican basement contribute to the painstaking, labor-intensive task of liberating one of the world's largest and most famous paintings from nearly 500 years of accumulated grime and murky glue? But the computer -- an Apollo workstation programmed to map every curve and crack down to the last millimeter -- proved so indispensable that it was installed 20 meters (65 ft.) above the ground, on the main scaffold, where it put a wealth of data about the frescoes at the master restorer...
...question arises because, beneath the level of day-to-day politicking, conservatives are a heterogeneous lot. We conservatives mock liberals for playing coalition politics with the federal treasury. But our own coalition, although we don't glue it together with tax dollars, is as diverse as theirs...
...aggressive and expansionist Soviet Union that threatened us both. Today, when the conventional wisdom is that the Soviet threat has diminished and when many even proclaim that the cold war is over, do we still have a common interest that overrides our differences? And if not, what is the glue that can keep us together in the years ahead...