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...past we've published books on photojournalism, the presidential campaign of 1988, the rise of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, and the 1989 Chinese army attack in Tiananmen Square. This idea clearly belonged to that tradition. Senior writer Otto Friedrich was quickly named editor and charged < with selecting a staff of writers and correspondents to contribute to the book, in addition to their magazine duties. As a team of production typesetters rushed to work out the technical details, graphics director Nigel Holmes began to plan the book's maps and charts...
Yavlinsky, who advises both Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, sounded what is rapidly becoming the predominant theme of Soviet policy. The nation needs enormous sums of Western aid to overhaul its collapsing economy. But it has no chance if it maintains a society largely walled off from the outside world. So Moscow is maneuvering to open the country to foreign influence in ways that might make not only Lenin and Stalin but also some of the czars spin in their graves...
...openers, Gorbachev is in effect applying for membership in that exclusive capitalist club, the G-7 (the Group of Seven major industrial and financial powers -- the U.S., Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan). After dropping some heavy hints, the Soviet President last week came right out and asked for an invitation to the G-7 summit meeting to be held in London in July. There he could make his pitch in person to the leaders of the countries that could supply the grants, loans and credits he seeks and try to reassure them that the money would...
...U.S.S.R., which would inevitably open the economy to the influence of foreign governments and such aid-granting and -monitoring institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Yavlinsky spent last week meeting with academics at Harvard. This week he will join Yevgeni Primakov, one of Gorbachev's top troubleshooters, in Washington for talks with government experts...
...thousand years of Russian history, a history that has never known government other than autocracy." For such public pessimism, Gates was slapped down first by Secretary of State George Shultz, then by his successor, James Baker. And on Gates' first trip to the Soviet Union, with Baker in 1989, Gorbachev bluntly expressed the hope that Moscow- Washington detente would "put Mr. Gates...