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That is not to say that Gorbachev might not be out on the street in the coming months. He might also find himself relegated to the role of caretaker President, able like the prophet Moses to lead his people to the promised land but not destined to enter himself. It is simply too early to tell. When leaders of the newly registered Democratic Party of Russian Communists, a radical reform group founded by Yeltsin's vice president, Alexander Rutskoi, were asked last week if they thought Gorbachev had any chance of winning a popular election for President of the Soviet...
...December 1987 the marshal visited Washington for the first time. He was accompanying President Gorbachev for the signing of the treaty that eliminated intermediate-range nuclear missiles. I invited him to call on me at the Pentagon. When he arrived two mornings later for breakfast, he was alone. Here was the leader of the Soviet military marching into the enemy's camp, without security people or a gaggle of aides. It was an impressive display of self- confidence. At that meeting he told me the two things in his life that he was most proud of were his participation...
...work last week at Communist Party headquarters in the Russian town of Pushkino, 20 miles from Moscow, she found the doors locked. The plaque identifying the building had been pried off the wall, and the flag stand next to the door was empty. By order of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who a few days before had been the world's top communist, Labus and tens of thousands of people like her across the Soviet Union were...
...many American officials stunned by the anti-Gorbachev putsch was ROBERT STRAUSS, the Democratic power broker whose fondness for creature comforts made him an unlikely ambassador to the Soviet Union. "I'm not sure I'm the right guy for the job," confessed Strauss in the early hours of the crisis. But as he thought about the prospect of taking on the hard-liners, Strauss warmed to the challenge. "I guess I could tell those motherf--- sons of bitches off," he concluded...
...sure, nobody expects the dissolution to go that far. Last week, indeed, saw the beginning of a countertrend toward formation of some kind of new union, spurred by somber warnings against self-destructive splintering of authority. Mikhail Gorbachev threatened to resign as Soviet President if some sort of union is not preserved, and Sobchak called a complete dissolution of the union "suicidal." Delegations of the giant Russian republic and Ukraine pledged to work out at least military and economic cooperation and invited the other republics to participate. At week's end a Russian delegation got the signatures of the leaders...