Word: gorbachevized
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President Gorbachev decided that we should try to set up one last meeting between American and Iraqi officials. Flying to Baghdad at the end of December, Belousov tried to talk Saddam into holding a meeting with American representatives in Geneva, when President Bush's proposal for such a session already seemed to be blocked. The meeting between Baker and Aziz was held on Jan. 9, but it produced no results...
...awakened by the ringing of the telephone. Gorbachev said Bessmertnykh, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov were on their way to the Kremlin and asked me to come too. Then he explained: Several minutes ago, the U.S. Secretary of State had called the Foreign Minister at home and informed him that military action would start in a matter of minutes. Gorbachev asked that Bush be informed urgently of his request that the attack be postponed for a time, so that one more attempt could be made to talk Iraq into announcing its readiness to remove its troops...
Shortly before Bush departed for the show, he had spoken with Mikhail Gorbachev, who reported that he and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz had agreed on terms for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, terms that would allow Saddam Hussein to preserve much of his military machine and political prestige...
...list of "criteria" by which the allies would judge whether an Iraqi withdrawal was unconditional and worthy of an allied cease-fire. The second was a single-page argument about why the Gorbachev-Aziz agreement was "unacceptable...
Bush scanned the drafts, nodded and said, "I like both of these. Let's put them together. It's not enough to just say we don't accept the Soviet plan. I went through this with Gorbachev on the phone, and he knows it's unacceptable and he knows the specific reasons why, and we ought to lay them out to the whole world...