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There is, in the annals of totalitarianism, one spectacular anomaly -- the strange case of Mikhail Gorbachev. He drew on the powers vested in him by the Stalinist system to liberate the foreign satellites and liberalize the internal order of the U.S.S.R. That was the miracle of Gorbachev...
Nevertheless, demands are growing to enact sanctions, especially in the U.S. Congress. President Bush is considering postponing the Feb. 11-13 Moscow summit. But the consensus among Gorbachev watchers is that the most sensible course for Western nations is to wait, watch, and pursue their self-interest. Washington has an agenda with Moscow -- topped by arms control -- that it wants to save, however disillusioned it might be by Gorbachev's retreat from reform. The gulf coalition has a strong interest in keeping Gorbachev aboard. -- a conviction that was only enhanced by last week's unconfirmed reports that the Soviet military...
...streets of Moscow, Leningrad and other cities to protest military intervention in the Baltics. No event since the advent of perestroika has so polarized Soviet society as the bloodshed in Vilnius. It has widened the chasm between reformers and reactionaries, leaving almost no support for the centrist positions that Gorbachev claims to represent...
...disputes which side has more muscle. The deployment of paratroops in Lithuania and black berets in Latvia has shown the range of powers at the command of what former presidential adviser Stanislav Shatalin calls the "black colonels" now surrounding Gorbachev. This is a reference to a conservative clique of officers in the Soviet parliament who opposed Shevardnadze. Their growing influence has been reflected in fiddling with weapons limits in defiance of the Conventional Arms Agreement signed in Paris last year, and in an increasingly obstinate stance on the timetable for Soviet troop withdrawals from Eastern Europe. The major obstacle...
...broad coalition of reformers has been in the making since last October, when the Democratic Russia movement was founded to unify a host of squabbling parties that sprang up after the Communists lost their monopoly on power. The anti-Gorbachev demonstrations that followed the crackdown in Lithuania have begun to mold the diffuse movement into a serious force capable of winning over the liberal fence straddlers, who had stuck by the Soviet President as the last bulwark against the reactionaries. The mass defection of prominent politicians, economists, writers, artists, actors and scientists from the Gorbachev camp in the last...