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...scheduling a U.S.-Russian summit in Vancouver for April 3-4, promising innovative aid programs and calling for an emergency meeting of the Group of Seven industrial countries to map out broad-scale Western assistance. It all may be too late. "We have known since the time of Gorbachev that the Russians don't give a damn about the prestige of their leaders," says Gernot Erler, a senior German legislator, "unless it puts food in their stomachs." No Western wands can wave away the real economic hardship that has fueled the Russian Congress's grab for power...
...International terrorism in the '80s was fundamentally fueled by the cold war," says Phillips, "and you can almost date the diminution of that terrorism with Gorbachev's ascension to power." But the end of communism has $ helped ignite the fires of nationalism in regions like the Balkans, emboldening other fanatical groups to sow the kind of trouble once created by Soviet and East bloc terrorists...
...winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, is in her fourth year of house arrest in Rangoon. "She continues to inspire the people of Burma," said Costa Rica's former President Oscar Arias Sanchez, flanked by Tibet's Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa (standing). Mikhail Gorbachev and Mother Teresa, also Peace Prize recipients, sent messages of support...
BOOKS An unparalleled look at Bush-Gorbachev diplomacy...
Bush, whose disposition and advice put him perpetually one step behind events, never did achieve his objectives of keeping Gorbachev in power and the Soviet empire intact, if only as a federation. Bush did facilitate the peaceful dissolution of the empire, but not entirely by design. Bush's instinctive opposition to democratic reform in Eastern Europe and secession in the Soviet Union allowed Gorbachev to believe that in abandoning Eastern Europe and forgoing force in the Baltics, he was not surrendering to the U.S. in the cold war. From Beschloss and Talbott's own account, the best that...