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...BUSH is the herald of the New World Order, Gorbachev tolled the death knell for the old one. After 40 years of a rigidly controlled Soviet bloc, he stunned the world by permitting the impermissible: the democratization of Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact...
This month, Mikhail Gorbachev has consolidated his control of the Soviet government. He has cracked down on nationalist movements in Lithuania and Latvia. He has proposed suspending a five-month-old law guaranteeing free speech, claiming that the ongoing crisis requires a renewed commitment to "objectivity...
...Gorbachev's dismantling of the Cold War sent a sigh of relief throughout the West. After all, the bipolar world was fraught with tension, ideological antagonism, arms escalations, Soviet human rights violations and American collaboration with vicious right-wing autocracies. It lacked any semblance of a moral foundation. It was pure power politics at its basest...
Caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, Gorbachev has bent to the hard-liners that have besieged him with demands for an authoritarian retrenchment. The big, bad bear is back, crushing unarmed demonstrators, establishing control, glutting the airwaves with propaganda--while 450,000 Soviet troops await orders from the Kremlin from posts throughout Eastern Europe. Suddenly, the regional power vacuum looms as a dangerous, unignorable challenge to international stability...
...seeks to rightly censure Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev for his violent actions against the people of Latvia and Lithuania, the staff opinion contrasts that wrong against the apparent "right" of a U.S. military offensive in the Middle East. In doing so, the staff promotes a "New World Order" that is no more "new" or "just" than the one President Bush has proclaimed...