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That was the year the Berlin Wall came down, but Cheney arrived at the Pentagon as a Gorbachev skeptic, unconvinced that this was the beginning of a new era in which the U.S. defense budget could be reduced by much. In the end, he delivered a 25% cut in the military, which required a major rethinking of Pentagon doctrine, and an ambitious and politically difficult plan for closing military bases in the U.S. He also went after some of the expensive but dubious weapons programs he had supported in Congress. He canceled the Navy's $57 billion A-12 attack...
...hastening the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The timing of those events, at the end of the Reagan years, disconcerts Reagan's critics. They claim that the Soviet collapse was the result of long years of economic inefficiency and deterioration, and of Gorbachev's loosening of the bolts through glasnost and perestroika...
...role as that of a modest analyst. But it is a sign of the times that Putin's election is not credited to a business tycoon or Kremlin staff member but to a professional political organizer--a former dissident and political exile who scorns the "intellectual poverty" of the Gorbachev years and is bullish on the Internet. His consulting firm, the Fund for Effective Politics, avoids the limelight but enjoys a reputation for achieving the impossible. One would-be client, the President of a Central Asian republic whom the fund refuses to identify, recently asked it to design a strategy...
...Putin in St. Petersburg earlier this month and, in order to strike a friendly note, soft-pedaled Western concerns over Chechnya. Even though nothing substantive was accomplished, London declared that Putin was "a man we can do business with," an echo of what Margaret Thatcher famously said about Mikhail Gorbachev after she met the then rising Soviet star...
DESIGNING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD AWARD Given by Global Green USA, the American affiliate of Green Cross International, the global conservation organization founded by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, this award honored Heroes for the Planet, our regular series on environmental issues. Edited by Charles Alexander, the series will culminate just before Earth Day (April 22) in a TIME special edition titled "How to Save the Earth," with articles by such distinguished conservationists as Edward O. Wilson and Richard Leakey, among others. The 2.8 million subscribers of our (kid) sister magazine TIME FOR KIDS will receive their own special issue, called...