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...condemned the Kremlin leadership's abandonment of Marxist principles in favor of "bourgeois morality." These Communists made it plain they were not about to give way to a multiparty system. The entire tone of the gathering suggested a council of war, and there were no recorded disagreements by Mikhail Gorbachev. A few days later, the Soviet President took to the airwaves to deliver a surprise national address. Visibly distraught, with his lips trembling at times, Gorbachev pleaded for a show of unity in the face of separatist movements and political dissension. "The Soviet Union is a superpower," he said. "Huge...
...televised appeal had a particular aim: get voters to endorse the Kremlin's new Union Treaty binding the 15 Soviet republics together. Four republics -- Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia and Armenia -- have vowed not to take part in the scheduled March 17 referendum, while Latvia was leaning toward boycotting it. But Gorbachev's message also carried the kind of rally-round- the-flag overtones sounded by resurgent Communist hard-liners. Should he fail to re-create the Union with popular consent, he will be pressed by the reactionaries to resort to force -- or move aside...
Preservation of the empire has given the party a potent appeal. One notable scold on the scene last week was Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's chief military adviser, who blasted fast-track reformers for aligning themselves with anti-socialist and separatist forces. His theme -- "Will we lose our homeland?" -- recalled Joseph Stalin's "Great Patriotic War" strategy of wrapping communism in the banner of saving the motherland from Nazi Germany. Akhromeyev wondered if the Soviet Union would now be "dismembered into pieces" subject to the "humiliation" of "dependence on Western governments...
...After Gorbachev's accession to power, doctrinaire communism went into a six- year tailspin. But the turmoil of recent months has given the cause fresh life. Many of the party's new vanguard deny they want to turn back the clock, and yet the Kremlin has begun targeting for investigation prominent private businessman Artyom Tarasov, a self-made Moscow tycoon...
...disastrous loss in public support for the war? Conversely, how many more Iraqi civilian deaths, real or alleged, can the Arab world witness without an almost equally devastating accelerated swing to support for Saddam? And can the allied coalition hold together, especially if Soviet support softens -- as Mikhail Gorbachev's weekend statement suggests...