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Certainly George Bush has so far failed to get the message across, in part because of his own ambivalence. At his summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the President proclaimed, "We've moved a long, long way from the depths of the cold war." But asked last week if the cold war was over, Bush fudged: "Well, I don't know -- we've got to wait and see." Ever since the summit, the President has heard grumbling -- and not only from right-wingers -- that he failed to "jam it to them while they're weak," in the words of Wisconsin...
...Under Gorbachev, the U.S.S.R. has fulfilled the one explicit condition that Congress laid down for granting MFN status to the Soviet Union when it passed the Jackson-Vanik Amendment in 1974, which was intended to permit freer emigration. In 1989, 71,190 Jews left the country. As recently as three years ago, a mere 914 emigrated. However, congressional leaders of both parties have raised a new condition: movement toward granting Lithuania's demand for independence from Moscow...
...Congress? Part of the explanation is that some conservatives would be left with little to do since one reason for their existence is to promote hostility toward the Kremlin. Other legislators who have no nostalgia for the cold war nonetheless think Bush has tied U.S. policy too closely to Gorbachev's political survival, and thus made concessions unwarranted by Soviet weakness. Bush invited such criticism by linking Lithuania and trade relations in May, then unlinking them at the summit without getting Soviet concessions in return...
WORLD: Challenging Gorbachev on all fronts, Yeltsin wins power in Russia...
...leader of the largest of the 15 Soviet republics, Yeltsin threatens Gorbachev's economic and political plans with a proposed program of sovereignty that would reduce the country to an alliance. -- In Poland, patience must not be in short supply if economic reforms are to succeed. -- A landslide victory for Burma's opposition. -- Iraq's Saddam Hussein: dangerous madman or cunning tyrant...