Word: gorbachevized
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...American legislators, going home during a recess to get an earful from their constituents is routine. For delegates to the Supreme Soviet, it is brand new, and shocking enough to help produce a near rebellion against President Mikhail Gorbachev. "I've been in my constituency, and there will be famine there soon, comrades, famine, a real famine!" exclaimed Valentina Gudilina, a delegate from the Moscow region, to her colleagues when they reconvened Wednesday after a 10-day break. Delegates also complained that they had heard nothing from Gorbachev about a five-hour meeting he had held a few days earlier...
...rise in the number of arbitrary detentions, disappearances and political assassinations. Even those who endorse Salinas' economic program often fault his political foot dragging. "If you begin to reform, you should reform thoroughly," says Rogelio Ramirez de la O, a private-sector economist. "That should be called 'the Gorbachev lesson.' " Unfazed by such criticism, Salinas argues that political and economic reform cannot be undertaken simultaneously. "Anyone who brings about changes over a wide number of fronts has to be able to control them," he says...
...approval ratings that marked his first year in office have plummeted below 44%, according to the results of an unpublished poll taken by the newspaper Excelsior. Now the talk is of his autocratic style of rule: he is likened with varying degrees of enthusiasm to Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher...
...Russia can negotiate formal treaties with its autonomous republics in a month, as planned, Yeltsin will have stolen another march on Gorbachev. The Kremlin had hoped to have a Treaty of Union spelling out new relationships between the republics and the center ready by the end of the year. That looks increasingly unlikely. Unwilling to accept the degree of central power the Kremlin wants, the republics are negotiating with one another and forming loose groupings of their own. The Russians have already signed cooperation agreements with eight republics and plan to conclude negotiations with the remaining...
...there will be strong pressures driving the center and the republics toward compromise. Neither seems able to overcome the other economically; the republics can probably no more get the managers of state enterprises to obey their commands than Gorbachev can enforce his decrees. Yeltsin and his aides proclaim continued readiness to join Gorbachev in some kind of coalition government of "national trust" to guide the Union through the wrenching transition to a market economy. The Yeltsinites insist, however, that any coalition must drop Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. So far, Gorbachev has shown no disposition to dump...