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...whose every move is tactical, Gorbachev is intent on one overriding goal, stability, for the country and himself. In a speech last month in Minsk, he told workers, "I am decisively in favor of political and economic stabilization, for strengthening order, so that authority is authority and not jelly." He now favors a "stable political coalition of centrist forces" that will include more than the Communist Party but exclude radical democratic groups. He apparently envisions parliament and national politics as Communist- dominated but co-opting enough dissent to keep the comrades on their toes. "It is necessary to turn...
That prediction is almost a certainty because neither of Gorbachev's crushing problems is about to go away. The referendum will do nothing to force the separatist republics to relent, and without basic reform the economy can only deteriorate. After withdrawing 50- and 100-ruble notes from circulation and setting the KGB to examining the books of offices with foreign connections, the government's next "reform" will be to raise prices on consumer goods an average...
...When Gorbachev summons the republics back to work on the revised Union treaty, officially titled the Treaty of the Union of Sovereign Republics, he will find them as reluctant as ever. One provision of the treaty, however, is that those republics that refuse to sign will be governed by "existing legislation of the U.S.S.R., mutual obligations and agreements." So the breakaway states that thought they could opt out of the Union by not joining the new one will still be held hostage. Undeterred, Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis says he will negotiate with Moscow only if the end result is Lithuanian...
...Soviet Union are going to rise to riches under the Gorbachev plan, which has already shown it has no answers to the country's problems. The requirements for a better national life are a free economy and a democratic system. Without both, the future can only offer a cycle of unrest and repression. The more violence the state uses to preserve itself, the worse the economy will become and the less help the rest of the world will be willing to offer. As Gorbachev moves to the conservative camp, his course does not lead toward stability, but crisis...
...Yeltsin had moments that made one believe Russia could shed its authoritarian impulses and emerge as something of a Western-style democracy. His finest hour, really his defining moment, was in August 1991. The leader of the country, Mikahil Gorbachev, was in the Crimea on summer vacation, and dark forces opposed to Gorby and his stop-start reforms tried to stage a coup...