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...Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost reforms have provided an unusual twist on the old story about girls who leave home seeking fame, but wind up exploited in the big city. Eleven young Soviet women emigrated to Toronto in January, lured by the promise of high-priced modeling jobs. Instead they wound up working as nude table dancers at several strip clubs. The women, billed at one club as "Gorby's Girls," say they were kept as virtual prisoners in a locked apartment during the day. Eventually, a bar patron learned of the group's plight and called police. While the Soviet...
Hart, who is currently working as an advisor to American companies doing business in Eastern Europe, expressed his admiration for Gorbachev and the democratic revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe. But he also said the political changes have left the United States without a unifying principle as it enters the 1990s...
...Defying troops and Gorbachev's ban, thousands demonstrate for reform...
...calling the important shots," says an aide to Secretary of State James Baker. "Their view is that Bessmertnykh has his own line of communication to Baker and that Komplektov's well-known tough views mean that he will be a figurehead ambassador only. The theory is that Bessmertnykh and Gorbachev have cleverly thrown a bone to the conservatives, and that Komplektov can do less damage in Washington than in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow...
Clearly, the best hope for our country -- and the best strategy for its leadership -- is to steer a middle course between the extremes. Perhaps not quite so obviously, Mikhail Gorbachev has an opportunity in the wake of the referendum to take advantage of a new phenomenon in our political life: the opposing tendencies now at play tend to balance one another and provide a base for the evolutionary development of democracy...