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...eight months since, American policymakers have frequently cited Yeltsin as living proof that there is no "serious" alternative to Mikhail Gorbachev. It is crucial to Gorbachev's strategy in dealing with the U.S. that Americans worry about his being replaced by a neo-Brezhnevite, if not a neo- Stalinist. Now along comes Yeltsin to pose the tantalizing possibility of a Soviet leader who would be more accommodating on a wide range of issues. He has indicated, for example, that he might give back to Japan islands occupied since the last days of World War II. Still, his victory last week...
Ironically and significantly, some of the Soviets who accompanied Gorbachev to Washington last week wasted no time in buttonholing their American counterparts and privately urging a little constructive revisionism in the Yeltsin case. Their argument went like this...
...Gorbachev, however, has continued to oppose German membership in NATO. Accepting a German presence in the Western alliance would be perceived as a great loss at home, and could have devastating effects on Gorbachev's program for domestic reform, experts...
...SUMMIT: GORBACHEV INTERVIEW...
Behind the Sandinistas' stunning election loss in Nicaragua is the secret story of U.S.-Soviet partnership in Central America. George Bush may lack Mikhail Gorbachev's grand vision, but he and his advisers proved their mastery of creative diplomacy...