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They are not the ones who could chant and march, because they can't afford to. They are old people living in small Moscow apartments who need free medical care. Old people with a lifetime's saving--partially gutted by Gorbachev's efforts at currency reform, but a savings that promised stability. They are low-level party bureaucrats who need their jobs to raise their families...
...libs" are pretty much anyone to the left of David Duke. San Francisco is "the West Coast branch of the Kremlin." Limbaugh, a rock-ribbed skeptic, believes that reports of the death of Soviet communism have been greatly exaggerated. A "Gorbasm" is the sound people make when hailing Mikhail Gorbachev -- "and of course every Gorbasm is fake." Listeners who agree with Rush shout "Mega-dittos" as a greeting. Those who don't agree, he says, endanger his concept of "safe talk" (to guarantee which Limbaugh once placed a condom over his microphone) and may get a "caller abortion." They...
...were the result of the Soviet Union's three-decade-long military presence in Cuba. But with the superpower face-off a fading memory and postcoup Moscow desperate for Western aid, it seemed well past time to say goodbye to all that -- which is what Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev finally did last week. Flanked by ^ Secretary of State James Baker, who was in Moscow on a fact-finding mission, Gorbachev announced that thousands of Soviet servicemen stationed in Cuba would soon be coming home. He also vowed to put economic ties with Cuba, which has long enjoyed Soviet subsidies...
...Although Gorbachev gave no timetable for the Cuban withdrawal, he indicated it should not take "many months" to complete. Less certain is the number of troops involved. In his statement the Soviet leader referred to a "training brigade" of 11,000. But the State Department estimates the entire Soviet military presence in Cuba to be no more than 7,600, including 2,800 soldiers, 1,200 civilian technical advisers, 1,500 military advisers and 2,100 technicians assigned to the huge Lourdes facility outside Havana, which eavesdrops on U.S. telecommunications. Moscow did make apparent, however, that it expects Washington...
...Soviets now supply more than 85% of the island's imports, including most of its oil, which Moscow swaps for Cuban sugar at such high valuations that it amounts to an effective annual subsidy worth millions. Putting this arrangement on a free-market basis, as Gorbachev promised to do, will knock out one of the few remaining pillars of the crumbling Cuban economy...