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...Soviet Socialist Republics. The Supreme Soviet is debating whether the country ought to get a new name once the proposed treaty of confederation among the 15 constituent republics of the U.S.S.R. is approved. Three suggestions: Union of Sovereign Socialist States (U.S.S.S.), put forth by none other than Mikhail Gorbachev; Union of Euro-Asian Republics, a coinage of the late Andrei Sakharov; and Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics, a nomination from the floor. That, of course, would retain both the word Soviet and the initials U.S.S.R. (or, in the Russian language and Cyrillic alphabet, C.C.C.P.). If none of them are judged...
...theory is that Mikhail Gorbachev wants extra military muscle available in case food riots erupt. If true, that would constitute the most startling indication yet of the President's weakening authority; Gorbachev the reformer would be turning to the largely reform-resistant military to keep him in power...
With or without a new set of prerogatives, Gorbachev and the entire central government are skating on the rim of irrelevancy as far as economic policy . goes. Already the Russian parliament, under President Boris Yeltsin, has voted to begin implementing the 500-Day Plan on Oct. 1, regardless of which way Moscow goes. The other republics, many of which desire economic sovereignty more than anything else, will be eagerly looking...
...Iran's help to break the embargo, and even believes he could win a war. But he might try a (probably unacceptable) compromise offer first. -- As Iraqis loot Kuwait, a finger-pointing debate starts on whether -- and who in -- Washington might have given an unintentional wink and nod. -- Gorbachev asks for the power to decree economic reform, but who cares? Power is passing to the republics anyway. -- History is likely to remember General Jaruzelski more fondly than do his Polish countrymen...
...recent years Soviet officials have permitted the publication of some of Solzhenitsyn's earlier writings. But no major new works have appeared in the Soviet Union since the master of Russian letters was banished for treason in 1974. And never before has Solzhenitsyn written about Gorbachev's Soviet Union...