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...Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, will fly to Moscow this weekend to meet with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
With the Baltics cooling down, Gorbachev's decision to send troops into the streets everywhere else seemed all the more bizarre. Even though the Defense and Interior ministries' order on joint patrols was dated a full month ago, Gorbachev gave his official authorization for the decree only last week. When he did publish the directive, it was considerably watered down and accompanied by provisions for local watchdog committees on "the activities of law- enforcement organs...
...nothing else." Pugo also said that each republic had the right to decide whether it wanted the army to join forces with local police. Taking him at his word, the Baltic republics and Georgia, Armenia and Moldavia promptly turned down the offer, and the Russian Federation called on Gorbachev to suspend the entire decree...
Mistrust of the security forces runs high -- with good reason. According to Colonel Victor Alksnis, a spokesman for disenchanted reactionaries, the pro- Communist National Salvation Committee in Lithuania was prepared to seize power and expected Gorbachev to pave the way by imposing presidential rule. But Gorbachev did not act, leading Alksnis to conclude that "the President betrayed...
...colonel put Gorbachev on notice that if he did not intend to use his powers more decisively he would face a mutiny within the army. At the same time, Gorbachev's hesitation to impose presidential rule in the Baltics or give his unequivocal support to military actions has not won him applause from reformers either. If the Kremlin has a strategy nowadays, it seems to be to get tough -- then back down. But with the growing polarization between radicals and reactionaries, no one seems prepared to accept uncertainty anymore...