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Other plans to dismantle the long nuclear standoff are moving ahead smartly. U.S. intelligence officials anticipate a major breakthrough in arms-control verification by spring. Until now, spy satellites have provided the best way to peek at what the other side is doing. Gorbachev quipped that U.S. military satellites could read the license plates on Moscow cars. But bad weather can block the view from space: airplanes would be better. Members of NATO and the former WARSAW PACT countries are close to an unprecedented agreement to permit regular verification flights over one another's territory. Come in, O'Hare! Requesting...
...Kennedy School, like half of the academic institutions in America, has offered an invitation to Mikhail S. Gorbachev--you know, the former leader of the former Soviet Union. If I were Gorbachev, I'd take my forty-dollar-a-month pension, settle into my little dacha in the Crimea and play with my grand-daughter. I wouldn't want to brave the Boston winter to explain to 24-year-old gov jocks how I failed as the leader of the world's other "superpower." Even Freud wouldn't recommend that much self-awareness...
There are no half steps in Sachs' world. He says that a gradualist approach of introducing limited market reforms into a centralized system, as Gorbachev tried for years, is doomed to failure. Sachs frequently cites the old Russian maxim that you cannot cross a chasm in two jumps...
...offers and speaking requests are pouring in for MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. One of the more unlikely gigs was suggested by a Nevada impresario who wants to pay Gorbachev $1 million a year to play casino host and superflack. But House Speaker Tom Foley plans to make Gorby an offer -- and honor -- he probably can't refuse: an invitation to address a joint session of Congress. Foley's office expects to send out the all-expenses-paid bid in the next week...
Much of that reluctance stems from those who overcommitted themselves to Gorbachev. Unlike Gorbachev, Yeltsin has met the conditions to qualify for aid. He led a genuine democratic revolution, winning the Russian presidency through free elections, standing heroically against the August coup, and supporting self-determination for the non-Russian nations. He has expressed a firm intention to resolve outstanding geopolitical issues in ways consistent with our interests. And with the freeing of most prices on Jan. 2, he has staked his political life on the rapid creation of a free-market economy in Russia...