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...into their heads in courses on Marxist-Leninist dogma, but they have never stopped believing that history moves in a circle, not a straight line. Ask a wrinkled babushka selling vodka on the street about Yeltsin's chances of success, and she will leapfrog back in memory over Mikhail Gorbachev's ill- fated perestroika to recall the doomed attempt by Nikita Khrushchev to break the stranglehold of the Stalinist past. An intellectual will delve even further into Russia's history, comparing Yeltsin's policies to the failed campaigns of reform-minded Czars like Peter the Great and Alexander...
...easy, and George Bush, as it turned out, was the last to encourage those or any other new reflections on world order. His boasted expertise in world affairs was largely a matter of knowing many foreign leaders. Deng Xiaoping he knew from the days of President Ford, and Mikhail Gorbachev from President Reagan's -- which just meant he was slow to respond to new situations after the Tiananmen Square massacre and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. Bush's is an inertial view of the world, meant to retain old ties as long as possible, a kind of male-club loyalty...
George Bush--Bush should retire to a ranch in Grenada with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. They can watch tapes of that invasion, the Gulf War, the Falklands, Afghanistan and, of course, nightly reprisals of "Bedtime for Bonzo...
AMERICA ABROAD: Russia vs. Gorbachev...
...SLOGAN HAS A FAMILIAR RING: THERE'S NOTHing wrong with communism that a little capitalism can't fix. Last time around, that approach was called perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's futile attempt to rejuvenate the Soviet socialist system. Perestroika is alive and well and living in Beijing under an assumed name -- "socialist market economy...