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...midst of Russia's crisis, TIME contributor Hugh Sidey talked with Richard Nixon, and contributor Christopher Ogden interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, who was on a visit to Calgary, Alberta...
...WESTERN AID TO RUSSIA: It has to be substantially more than has currently been discussed. We must avoid doing just enough to get our feet wet, but not enough to work. If we're not prepared to do the whole job, then we should stay out of it. ON GORBACHEV'S FUTURE: The Russians are not going back to Gorbachev. He's a man without a party. The Russians are also not going back to communism. Even the Russian Speaker ((Khasbulatov)), who wants power, doesn't want to do that...
...MIKHAIL GORBACHEV...
Russians have always had a soft spot for Yeltsin, who faced down the tanks of the old regime in August 1991. Their enthusiasm began to fade only when he successfully elbowed his way into Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin office later that year. This week the besieged President is a populist hero again. The Moscow rumor mill churned out one pro-Yeltsin story after another -- and no one much cared if they were highly exaggerated or totally wrong. How turncoat Vice President Alexander Rutskoi pinched a copy of Yeltsin's unfinished decree on "special rule" and gave it to the opposition...
JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS BEFORE Boris Yeltsin was scheduled to address the Russian people last Saturday, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the Soviet Union, attended a reception at the Moscow Writers' Club. "My wish to the Russian President," he said, "is to take the initiative in his own hands." Few knew better than Gorbachev the fate of those who failed to show courage at the decisive moment: when the August coup of 1991 collapsed after three days, Gorbachev chose to closet himself in the Kremlin instead of rushing out to the barricades and embracing...