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Opposites Attract--When President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev agreed to hold a summit in the United States sometime in June, both Harvard and Brown Universities reportedly tried to lure the Soviet leader for speaking engagements. Since Harvard has prominent research centers for both European and Russian Studies, and since Brown President Vartan Gregorian is said to have close ties to Soviet officials, many believed Gorbachev would accept one of the invitations. As it turns out, Gorby snubbed both Harvard and Brown, instead choosing to visit Stanford, home of the notoriously conservative Hoover Institute. Gorbachev said he chose...
...Gorbachev made a noncommittal reply. I said, "Thank you again. Goodbye." (Contrary to the demands of protocol, I brought the conversation to a close, not Gorbachev. I must have felt under stress and perhaps subconsciously feared that I might say too much.) Gorbachev had little choice, so he said, "Goodbye...
...Gorbachev: A Cry for Help...
...subject that came up in every interview was my attitude toward Gorbachev and perestroika. In 1985, while still confined in Semashko Hospital, I watched one of Gorbachev's early television appearances, and I told my roommates, "It looks as if our country's lucky. We've got an intelligent leader." My initial, positive reaction has remained basically unchanged. Gorbachev, like Khrushchev, is an extraordinary personality who has managed to break free of the limits customarily respected by the party bureaucracy. What explains the inconsistencies and half measures of the new course? The main stumbling block is the inertia...
...there's more to it than that. The old system, for all its drawbacks, worked. And people had grown used to the old system, which at least guaranteed a certain minimal standard of living. Who knows what the new one will bring? And lastly, Gorbachev and his close associates themselves may still not be completely free of the prejudices and dogmas of the system they wish to reform...