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Rushed to Israel to condemn Scud attacks and turned up last week in the Soviet Union to lambaste Mikhail Gorbachev for the Baltic crackdown...
Take a hard case, Lithuania. For the months of the gulf crisis, until Gorbachev went free-lancing with his peace plan, there seemed to be a tacit U.S.-Soviet understanding: the U.S.S.R. would stay within the anti-Iraq coalition, and the U.S. would go easy on criticizing Moscow's repression of Lithuania. Is such a deal conscionable...
...they can, and sometimes they must. America is not omnipotent. It cannot be everywhere. It has to have priorities. One cannot equate the utter devastation of Kuwait with the cruel but hardly fatal repression of Lithuania. There is no doubt that under Gorbachev or his generals, Lithuania will continue to exist as a society. There can be little doubt that under Saddam, Kuwait will...
...stray from the script. As the television commentator kept trying to interrupt, Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian republic, plunged the politics of the U.S.S.R. into turmoil by taking on the President of the Soviet Union himself. "I separate myself from the position and policies of Mikhail Gorbachev," he read in a slow, deep baritone, "and I call for his immediate resignation...
...Yeltsin's first, but it was surely his strongest, and timed to coincide with a period of severe domestic disarray. As the economy worsens, the republics are growing more restive, the forces of order more demanding and the left more fractious. In the face of such pressure, Gorbachev's efforts to govern look increasingly feeble. Moreover, he has linked his fate to those who retain power but who most resist real change: Communist Party apparatchiks, industrial managers, army generals, KGB colonels...