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...MIKHAIL GORBACHEV WAS NEVER AS POPULAR AT home as abroad. But last week the former Soviet President's status in Russia reached an all-time low. The once omnipotent Gorbachev has been waging -- and lately losing -- a war of recrimination with his former rival, Russian President Boris Yeltsin. First Yeltsin's government barred Gorbachev from leaving the country and fined him because he refused to testify at a trial investigating the ostracized Communist Party. Then Yeltsin ordered the police to seize the Moscow headquarters of the Gorbachev Foundation, the former leader's political think tank. "This is all happening...
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...Mikhail S. Gorbachev might tell you now, salaries which remain fixed and independent of performance encourage laxity, negligence and mediocrity. Professor with life-time positions have no reason to maximize their teaching performance (or even improve...
...think Gorbachev still believes in the socialist idea, the way I believed in it. He believed ideal socialism was possible. If he had been a scholar and believed that, there would have been nothing bad about it. Someone would have read his treatises, and that would have been that. But if you lead a country, your vision is very important...
...WORLD DID PRESIDENT BUSH CHOOSE TO HOLD HIS December 1989 summit with Mikhail Gorbachev on board heaving ships off the wintry coast of Malta? After the world's most powerful duo endured the so-called seasick summit, the President tweaked his younger brother WILLIAM ("Bucky") BUSH for suggesting the stormy site. It turns out that Bucky, an international investment consultant, had business ties to firms that could have profited from the choice of a tiny nation trying to boost its tourism. He was, for example, a consultant for CIGA, an Italian hotel firm that was mulling construction...