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...Gorbachev's associates say he accepts that some shrinkage is inevitable; he is looking for a way of making the process dignified, or at least orderly. He is also trying to buy time for the reforms he hopes will induce most of the country to remain. The rules that the Supreme Soviet has imposed for secession, however, are rigged to give the central authorities a veto over the will of the people around the periphery. The result has been to radicalize even relatively moderate nationalists. The more Gorbachev tries to slow down their departure, the more determined they...
Happily, one of the more fertile lines of thinking about security, paralleling its demilitarization, is its denationalization, which may at least restrain xenophobic excesses. Terms like common security, mutual security, global security, international security are proliferating in think tanks and Gorbachev's speeches, if not yet in the National Security Council. These terms have at their core the wise notion that in an increasingly interdependent world, security, however defined, cannot be achieved or protected along national lines; that our security depends on others...
Minnesota is known for its skillful fishermen, and its Governor has landed the big one, Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet President will stop in next month for some high-tech talk, heartland wisdom and a hearty lunch...
...Summit Stall. Endgame, however, might have been a more accurate term. In a manner familiar to all negotiators who have ever raced a deadline, Soviet and American negotiators sought to extract the last possible concession before turning over a nuclear-weapons agreement for their chiefs, George Bush and Mikhail ; Gorbachev, to announce with a flourish at their summit meeting next week. But by the time Secretary of State James Baker left Moscow on Saturday, after four days of talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and a five-hour visit with Gorbachev, basic agreement on the most significant arms-control...
...range nuclear arsenals 30% to 35%. But Baker and Shevardnadze could not bridge their differences on how to reduce conventional troops and tanks in Europe. Baker said the U.S. had offered a "new" approach, but "our counterparts were unable to respond at this time." Still, it is likely that Gorbachev and Bush will sign a full treaty by year...