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...glory that was the Soviet Communist Party: chauffeur-driven sedans, opulent dachas, private medical clinics and special schools. These perks evaporated for the party elite within days of the abortive August coup, when President Mikhail Gorbachev quit his post as General Secretary and authorized local elected councils to take control of the organization's extensive property holdings. Today, the Communist Party lies stripped of its buildings, its publications and its domestic bank accounts, which were frozen in August...
...estimates put Soviet gold reserves at 2,500 to 3,500 tons. In January 1990, said former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov last week, the country had 784 tons. After the August coup failed, Russian officials announced ominously that "a certain amount of gold is missing." In September, Grigori Yavlinsky, Gorbachev's top economic adviser, claimed that two-thirds of the gold reserves had been sold abroad in 1990, leaving only 240 tons...
...their R.S.V.P. in writing. Yes, they would attend the Middle East peace conference organized by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, the first full-scale meeting between Israel and the Arabs in almost two decades. That cleared the way for a joint U.S.-Soviet announcement that Presidents Bush and Gorbachev would both attend the opening of the much anticipated parley next week in Madrid. They had already sent out formal invitations to the parties, who had all, more or less, said yes. Declared a plainly pleased Baker: "This is an important...
That much Bush and Gorbachev acknowledge. But they're also engaged in a tacit conspiracy to eliminate as many nuclear weapons as possible from parts of the U.S.S.R. that want to be independent countries...
...would-be founding fathers of some would-be new countries harbor nuclear ambitions, they know perfectly well which republic will end up with the most warheads and launchers stationed on its territory: Russia. The Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Belorussians and the rest would prefer that all that megatonnage remain Gorbachev's responsibility rather than become the property of Boris Yeltsin...