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...quartered. The zones occupied by the Western Allies merged, naturally, into the Federal Republic within five years. East Germany was always a rump state, unnaturally dependent on an ideology and a reign of fear, both imposed by Moscow. The beginning of the end came last October, when Mikhail Gorbachev visited East Berlin and announced, almost in so many words, that Erich Honecker was on his own. For a Soviet puppet, that means the end. The juggernaut of unification was under way. Kohl found himself in the driver's seat largely ex officio: he happened to be the Chancellor of West...
This free-enterprise spirit is already much in evidence among Moscow street artists, who are doing brisk business with a variation of the famous matryoshka dolls. The new set contains caricatures of five Communist leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev. Cost...
...Nobel Peace Prize. At the urging of Sakharov's wife, the two of you move inside to escape the cold Russian night air and, to the accompaniment of more pots of tea, he continues the story. He tells you of his internal exile in Gorky and final release by Gorbachev...
...Gorbachev threw his support behind Politburo member Vladimir Ivashko, 58, a tough-talking moderate from the Ukraine, committed to the Soviet leader's kind of reform. Without rejecting Ligachev by name, Gorbachev pointedly reminded the delegates that it was important that the two people at the top of the party are "close in their views." Ivashko won 3,109 votes, Ligachev 776, a showing so poor that when he was later asked about his chances of being on the new Politburo, he candidly replied, "There is no need...
After 2 1/2 years of the intifadeh they have built a nation but not a state. No matter what happens, they will never be the same. -- Yeltsin's departure could leave Gorbachev in charge of an irrelevant Communist Party. -- Chamorro navigates Nicaragua back from the brink of chaos...