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...Ploshchad, a few blocks from the Kremlin. Seated in brown leather swivel chairs around a wooden table, the ruling Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made its decisions to invade Afghanistan, reduce nuclear weapons, settle questions of Kremlin succession. It was in this room that Mikhail Gorbachev first discussed reform policies that would change the world and bring the U.S.S.R. to an end. Today the headquarters of the once powerful party belongs to Russia's new democratic leadership: Boris Yeltsin's team...
...team manager, coping with ordinary affairs of state, is in marked contrast to the larger-than-life image of the Russian leader that the world came to know during last August's putsch. He displayed ruthless daring again last December, when he delivered the political coup de grace to Gorbachev and to the empire he ruled. But Yeltsin has been dogged by one persistent doubt: Could he transform himself from a defiant leader of the opposition, bent on destroying the old order, into a competent statesman capable of building...
...terraced stone walls of the old town are draped in purple wisteria and wild yellow roses, and the first wave of tourists has come to stroll among the palmettos, ! cypresses and golden rain trees lining the town's crooked streets. Though it was not far from Yalta that Mikhail Gorbachev spent three days under house arrest last August during the coup attempt, the resort is best remembered as the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin convened to redraw the map of Europe. That was 47 years ago, when the Crimea fell unquestionably within the Kremlin's empire and only dreamers...
...Former President of the Soviet UnionMikhail S. Gorbachev addresses an audience of 600at the ARCO Forum. The former Secretary General ofthe Communist Party says through a translator thatthe U.S. and the Commonwealth of IndependentStates must work together to bring about a betterfuture...
Despite the economic and political crises in the republics of the former Soviet Union, Gorbachev projects an overwhelming optimism. Russia is down, he says, but will rise again. Although he vows he will not become part of the opposition and has no political ambitions, his continuing involvement in high policy implies he may see himself as the once and future President. His country is in no mood to recall him to power now, and he cannot be sure it ever will. But if it does, his undiminished self-confidence indicates that he is ready to answer...