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...have been a severe test of his ingenuity and stamina. His attempt to revive a stagnant economy seemed only to be provoking fresh resistance from populace and parliament alike. Just as the war of nerves between the Kremlin and secessionists in Lithuania entered a new and delicate phase, Mikhail Gorbachev suddenly faced a challenge to his power much closer to home. His only real rival in the turbulent arena of Soviet politics, the maverick former Politburo member Boris Yeltsin, mounted an impressive campaign to become the president of the country's largest and most important republic, the Russian federation...
...quiet on the international front. With Gorbachev preparing to leave for this week's summit meeting in Washington, his host George Bush indicated that because too many Americans see Gorbachev as the bully of the Baltics, it might be difficult to lift trade restrictions against the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, Gorbachev's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, met with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, in Geneva. It was an upbeat meeting except on what may be the single most neuralgic point for Soviet foreign policy: Genscher reiterated that a unified Germany will be a member of NATO...
Despite all these new problems and reminders of old ones, Gorbachev was still trying to convey the impression that he was driving events rather than reacting to them. In one of his boldest political gambles yet, he linked the implementation of economic reform -- higher prices, lower state subsidies and the introduction of some free-market mechanisms -- to a nationwide referendum. So much, he seemed to be saying, for the twin charges that he is unwilling to submit to genuine democracy and afraid of tough decisions. The immediate response of his fellow citizens was not encouraging. In Moscow and other cities...
...midst of these multiple challenges, Gorbachev met for an hour last Tuesday with five journalists from TIME for his only interview before leaving for the summit. All around the world, and all around the Soviet Union, people may be wondering how long Gorbachev will last, and how he has survived with so many things going so wrong. Those questions, however, were far from his thinking. He was the man at the eye of the storm, supremely confident that he will still be working his will and wit on the world when the thunder and gale- force winds are spent...
Dispensing quickly with protocol, Gorbachev motioned his visitors to join him, along with two aides and an interpreter, in deep-cushioned brown leather chairs ranged around a small oval table of stylishly crafted, elegantly polished black wood. The intimate setting was in marked contrast to the traditional long, rectangular, green baize-covered table at which delegations in Communist countries square off over battlements of bottled mineral water...