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Appealing for peace, Gorbachev seemed to take sides with the Moldavians, saying, "We have to give separatists a real fight here." But the violence showed just how tenuous a hold the Kremlin has on its splintering empire. As ethnocentrism sweeps through the land, even minorities as small as the 150,000-strong Gagauz are seeking self-rule. And Russians, who once enjoyed colonial privileges in the outlying Soviet republics, now find themselves on the defensive as nationalism prevails...
...what has made Prunskiene such a forceful leader. She always expresses herself firmly and directly, she says, but "in such a way that when the conversation is over, it can end without conflict and leave open the possibility of continuing later." Her private discussions with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, she says, have been marked by this ability to disagree without insulting or demeaning the Soviet leader. Yet if her tactics are nonconfrontational, she is unwilling to compromise her goals. "The most important thing," she says, "is to reach our independence...
...methods have earned her a working relationship with Gorbachev, but not with Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's fiery President. While he represents the mystic Lithuanian dreams, she concentrates on practicalities. The two have disagreed strongly about how to deal with Moscow, and many emotional Lithuanians share with Landsbergis his dismay at her conciliatory moves. Prunskiene dismisses the criticism as irrelevant: "As a leader I do not have to follow what I believe is the wrong way just to show unity...
Only the Soviets, who had told nonaligned members of the Security Council last week that Saddam was not interested in negotiation, continued to hold out hope. On Saturday President Gorbachev said the Iraqi leadership may be softening its hard line, so military force should not be used...
...first of two excerpts from An American Life, his forthcoming autobiography, the man who once called the U.S.S.R. an "evil empire" shows himself to be a stubborn dreamer out to rid the world of nuclear arms. He tells how he and Gorbachev, through five meetings and a prolific correspondence, built a rapport that helped end the cold war. -- Why he decided to run for President. -- The day he dodged death by less than an inch...