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...make up for losses in Soviet aid, China has reportedly offered to provide Vietnam with $2 billion in assistance. In return, Beijing is said to have demanded assurances that the Vietnamese will launch no Gorbachev-style political reforms...
...date inventories of each other's arsenals, but that job is already done by satellites and computers. Meanwhile, both sides are hungrier for information in areas that require human analysis and hands-on, close-up espionage. "If anything," says CIA Director William Webster, "the changes introduced by Gorbachev make it more important for the Soviets to get intelligence on key foreign policy matters, congressional intentions, defense and advanced technology." As for the U.S., it will need as much information as possible on the players in the unpredictable dramas of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in the volatile Third...
Independence, though, is a difficult road, as was clear last week when Lithuania received its most ominous warning yet from Moscow. Addressing the breakaway government, Mikhail Gorbachev charged the Lithuanians with "anticonstitutional actions." Rescind those decisions "within the next two days," he demanded, or the shipment of supplies to Lithuania would be stopped. Gorbachev was seemingly threatening to cut off oil, natural gas and coal supplies to the Baltic republic, which depends on the Soviet Union for most of its energy needs...
...Mikhail Gorbachev thought he could limit the cracks in the union to the Baltic region, he has certainly been underestimating the Georgians. The 5.4 million people of this small Caucasian republic have never forgotten the brief period of independence they enjoyed between 1918 and 1921, when invading Bolshevik forces imposed Soviet rule. The Georgians contend that they were illegally forced into the union, in violation of a 1920 "noninterference" treaty with Moscow...
...moment, the Kremlin seems to be hoping that if it ignores the Georgian national movement, it might somehow go away. But what will happen when Moscow wakes up to the fact that independence is a word not limited to the Lithuanians? Gorbachev makes no secret of how deeply he fears the movements seeking to redraw the boundaries of his country. At a meeting with young Communists last week, he predicted, "If we begin to divide up, I'll give it to you bluntly, we'll end up in such a civil war, in such bloody ! carnage that...