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...Kelley wrongly implies Nancy Reagan had a major hand in shaping foreign policy. In one encounter described in the book, President Reagan's aides showed him an agenda for his Geneva summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. The President asked whether the agenda had been shown to Nancy yet. No, he was told. "Get back to me after she's passed on it," he said. The reason for his concern was almost certainly Nancy's obsession with coordinating his schedule with the astrological charts -- a revelation that came out years ago. But Kelley uses the incident to imply, misleadingly, that...
...Gorbachev seems unable to realize that there is no halfway house between a command system and a free market, and that there can be no successful private enterprise without private ownership. He is unable to cut the umbilical cord to the Marxist-Leninist philosophy that has nurtured him all his life...
...country slipped deeper into domestic chaos, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week unveiled an "anti-crisis program" designed to reassert Moscow's central control and curb the spreading economic and political unrest. In a speech long on apocalyptic warnings and exhortations to discipline -- but, as usual, short on fresh ideas -- the President called for a moratorium on strikes and demonstrations to be coupled with additional measures to stabilize the economy. Gorbachev threatened tough action against republics that refused to cooperate, but he offered no specifics on how he planned to enforce his program...
...Gorbachev's speech was immediately greeted with two acts of naked defiance. Georgia became the first republic outside the Baltics to declare outright independence. The next day tens of thousands of workers in Minsk, the capital of once quiescent Belorussia, answered the call for a strike moratorium by walking off the job, joining the estimated 300,000 miners on strike. The cost of these labor disruptions is already estimated to run into the billions. This can only worsen a budget deficit that has in the first quarter already exceeded the government's projection for the entire year by more than...
...meeting in the Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev assured me that his current turn toward the reactionaries is just a temporary detour. But the evidence is overwhelming that he is leading the U.S.S.R. toward the abyss. In the absence of radical reform, the Soviet Union will become an irrelevant and crippled empire -- a nuclear superpower with a Third World economy, unable to play a major role on the world stage. This is good news in one sense because it means a declining Soviet threat. But it is also bad news because, as I told Gorbachev in 1986 and again in our recent...