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...will the free market bring to our elderly neighbor in Moscow, whose annual pension now equals a few dollars? What is freedom to travel if the lifting of price controls (as planned for the new year) raises the cost of a ticket to New York to more than twice Gorbachev's annual retirement pension...
...apparent suicide), Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, are said to have begun plotting in December 1990. If so, eight months later they still had not organized the most obvious, and essential, opening moves: arresting, or preferably killing, potential opponents (some supporters of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev operated unmolested from a Kremlin office almost next door to Yanayev's); assuring themselves of the loyalty of military units and then moving them into position to crush resistance speedily (army and KGB units flatly refused to storm the White House, the marble-faced Moscow headquarters of the Russian republic...
Instead revulsion against the coup resulted in the downfall of the party and an accelerated move toward complete independence on the part of the Soviet republics. That move has now killed the union completely, forced the resignation of Gorbachev, and has given birth to a Commonwealth of Independent States that is more of an alliance than a nation. To fail so totally as to bring about the exact opposite of what you want -- that calls for more than run-of-the-mill incompetence. It requires a kind of perverse genius that will make the Moscow plotters memorable long after...
...Riyadh, London to Lagos, Beijing to Buenos Aires, Cable News Network is on more or less continuously in the suites of a vast array of chiefs of state and foreign ministers. It has become the common frame of reference for the world's power elite. Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush and Saddam Hussein -- the headline sparring partners of the year just past -- are all alert watchers. What a computer message can accomplish within an office, CNN achieves around the clock, around the globe: it gives everyone the same information, the same basis for discussion, at the same moment...
...political contacts, dating from his years as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He has taken a hands-on approach to CNN in more ways than one. During the gulf war he brought cookies to bleary-eyed staffers working on the weekend. When ABC signed up Mikhail Gorbachev and Yeltsin for a joint interview after the failed coup, Johnson flew to Moscow and personally negotiated with them to do separate interviews on CNN first...