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...President, now 69 years old, had been working too hard and traveling too much. So on Saturday, Feb. 24, he claims, he decided to take the day off. He retired to one of his Havana-area homes and began paging through My Truth, a book that tells how Mikhail Gorbachev, in opening the door to reform, failed to control dissent and wound up losing power. These days, Castro will tell anyone willing to listen how determined he is to avoid the Soviet leader's mistakes. As a senior U.S. official says, "There is nothing more threatening to him than...
MOSCOW: The only Russian politician who might be less popular than Boris Yeltsin has may soon declare his candidacy for President. Mikhail S. Gorbachev said today that he is inclined to run, but that the Russian voters will have to wait a while for an official announcement. Gorbachev feels that he could unite reformers, and carry the banner of change himself. He accuses Yeltsin's regime of "bringing people to poverty and the country to ruin under the slogans of reform." Gorbachev says he has some success collecting the one million signatures required to appear on the ballot. but even...
Clinton, our domestic Gorbachev, surrenders 200 years of gain by the non-rich in America and devastatingly compromises our personal economic security, our environment, our Internet and all our public assets as the voices of Thomas Jefferson's and Franklin D. Roosevelt's and John F. Kennedy's followers are stilled within the world's oldest political party...
...position himself more toward the center, while not completely embracing the nationalist agenda." A longtime Communist Party member, the 66 year old Primakov was named to head the foreign arm of the reorganized KGB in 1991. "The interesting thing about Primakov," adds Kohan, "is that he was a Gorbachev man. He came up through the party ranks under Gorbachev, and he's one of few old-guard people still around...
...worker in 1967. He was serving as a deputy chief of the ideology department of the Soviet Central Committee in 1990 when he helped found a separate Russian Communist Party. It was created to oppose the reformist course of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Mikhail Gorbachev. Zyuganov proudly says he served as "a leading ideologist" in the failed 1991 communist putsch against Gorbachev...