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...RAISA GORBACHEV'S apparent nervous breakdown did not surprise top Soviet analysts. The normally vigorous First Lady was showing signs of tension when she accompanied her husband to the London economic summit in July. Drawing aside Barbara Bush, Raisa confided her worries about Mikhail's political future, even hinting that she feared for his life. Soviet officials in Europe report that she became hysterical several times during her Crimean captivity, and speculate that she has suffered a stroke and a heart attack...
...party that had run the country for more than 70 years using a combination of ruthless terror and plodding bureaucracy. Like party offices all across the country, it was shut down after the failure of the attempted coup, its assets frozen and its employees out on the street. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as its leader and the national parliament suspended its activities...
...communism as we have known and hated it is out of the way, perhaps George Bush can now talk unabashedly to Soviet officials about such good old- fashioned values as God, truth and the sanctity of human life. Evangelist Billy Graham, who talked to Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev shortly before the botched coup, returned from the Soviet Union and passed the word to his friend Bush that both men had told him of the need for "some philosophy, some religion, an inner strength" for their society...
White House Soviet experts say the "amorality of communism" continued to bedevil Presidents up until Gorbachev took power. The first hint of change came when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984 signaled to Reagan that Gorbachev seemed realistic and trustworthy. If whatever Soviet entity survives this upheaval embraces the human values of democracy, it will, in the view of former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, "make it easier emotionally and conceptually for us, but it won't be any easier in terms of the number of problems." That's gain enough...
...name Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has about it the deep sonority of history. Unfortunately, it is history -- or virtually so. Last week members of the Soviet parliament batted around suggested titles for the disintegrating union. Among the candidate monikers are the Union of Sovereign Soviet States (a Gorbachev favorite), the Euroasian Economic Community and the Commonwealth of Sovereign States of Europe and Asia. One cynic even suggested the Club of Crippled Nations...