Word: gorbymania
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...third visit to the U.S. since coming to power more than 36 years ago, the Cuban President is receiving a warm welcome. Although President Clinton is officially avoiding Castro, the 69-year-old Cuban president and former rebel was not hurting for invitations during the U.N. celebration. "Gorbymania, it seems, has given way to Fidelmania," reports Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth. Among those putting out the welcome mat for the Cuban leader: The Council on Foreign Relations, TIME Magazine, U.S. News & World Report publisher Mortimer Zuckerman and a New Jersey woman who invited him to a family cookout. The invitations...
...time, the West is preparing for the possibility that reactionary generals might come to dominate Soviet security policy. Defense officials in the U.S. and Europe are already rethinking hopes for new reductions in conventional and nuclear forces. "It's lucky we didn't dissolve NATO in the euphoria of Gorbymania," says a senior British diplomat. No one expects the turmoil in Moscow to result in a new attempt to subjugate Eastern Europe or even to slow the departure of Soviet troops. "The Soviet withdrawal will go ahead as planned," predicted Klaus Segbers of Germany's Institute for Science and Policy...
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