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...devoted Communists have no room for religion, because Mikhail Gorbachev and the rest of his party are in desperate need of a miracle. Nothing short of Saint Nicholas on his sleigh could possibly deliver a cure for the slew of ailments afflicting their country...
...this were the extent of Mikhail Gorbachev's problems, he'd be a man in deep trouble. But they are only the surface...
...scrambles to get food from farm to table, Gorbachev has been forced to appeal to the outside world for help. At the summit meeting of Western leaders in Paris last month, he took aside European heads one by one to emphasize his plight. Nowhere did the message get through more clearly than in Germany, where a national campaign to deliver food assistance is being directed by the government and private organizations. Last week more than 100,000 food parcels -- each containing enough coffee, sugar, rice, powdered milk, cheese and canned meat to feed one person for two weeks -- were shipped...
Germans acted out of a mixture of motives: simple generosity, gratitude to Gorbachev, even a touch of guilt -- German CARE, a descendant of the postwar American relief program, addressed its shipments to cities like Kiev and Smolensk that had suffered most from Hitler's aggression during World War II. They also are worried that unless the food crisis is brought under control, Western Europe will face a flood of Soviet refugees. Nations along the Soviet border from Scandinavia to Czechoslovakia are bracing for that possibility. Fearing instability, Poland last week even decided to beef up its troop deployments along...
...spectacle of Gorbachev facing the anger of a hungry nation has led George Bush to decide that he is ready to consider asking Congress to waive the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which bars Moscow from most-favored-nation trading status until freer emigration is allowed. Though Gorbachev has greatly loosened emigration restrictions, the Administration has insisted that the new policy must be written into law before trade limitations can be lifted...