Word: gorbachev
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...first time since World War II, the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union met each other not as cold war adversaries or even as wary rivals to make their competition more manageable, but as partners cooperating against a common enemy: Saddam. Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Helsinki fully agreed on their objective: an unconditional Iraqi pullout...
...summit began, Gorbachev presented Bush with a cartoon showing the two as boxers, with a figure representing the cold war knocked senseless at their feet and a referee with a globe for a head raising their hands in joint triumph. Most of the session was devoted to the gulf; Bush aides asserted that neither the presence of Soviet military advisers in Iraq nor Moscow's call for a Middle East conference that would discuss not only Kuwait but the Israeli- Palestinian impasse and the civil war in Lebanon as well posed a major impediment to cooperation. En route...
...voting for U.N. resolutions establishing a worldwide embargo -- without claiming any major part for itself. And it has rebuffed all attempts to drive a wedge between itself and Washington. In what was officially described as a "frank" (diplospeak for stormy) meeting in Moscow with Baghdad Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, Gorbachev repeated his insistence that there is only one way to end the crisis: unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait...
When I swore to defend my country, Mikhail Gorbachev was still our greatest enemy. So was Syrian President Hafez Assad. The Reagan Administration supported Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran, and did not complain when he gassed thousands of his citizens. Or when he bombed one of our ships, killing 37 men. I believed...
With the spectacle of Operation Desert Shield, Gorbachev's joining the U.S. in denouncing dictators and a dubious U.S.-Syrian alliance, I have learned that there are no abiding principles guiding American foreign policy...