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...Arthur Hartman, former U.S. ambassador to France and the Soviet Union, was there, along with other former government officials that put the Marshall Plan together," said Raynor. "It was very informative. When you're dealing with people that were there, you can't help but learn a lot, even just by osmosis...
...chance to talk at an impersonal level with ambassador Hartman," Tendler said. "If I had read 10 books I couldn't have learnt as much about U.S-U.S.S.R. relations and Gorbachev's new reforms...
...glad we filed the complaint," said AAAmember Chester W. Hartman '57, who organized the1987 election. "The fact that [the AttorneyGeneral] had it for a year and a half had itseffect on Harvard--they were suitably embarassed...
That excitement is understandable. Gorbachev's reform campaign represents potentially the most wrenching transformation in the lives of Soviet citizens since World War II. But can he succeed? Many Western experts are doubtful. Predicts former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman: "Russian history will prove stronger than the modernizers. Real reform means distribution of power away from the center, away from the party. I don't think those guys will accept that voluntarily." Some students of Soviet history, noting that periods of reform have typically alternated with periods of reaction, suggest that Gorbachev's policies may proceed for a while...
...Arthur Hartman, who until earlier this year was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, is particularly troubled by the unwarranted optimism he believes has erupted. "The little evidence we have is that this guy Gorbachev is a pretty orthodox fellow." Moscow's global ambitions and its "centralized authoritarian rule" seem unlikely to change, he says. "The Soviet Union is our antagonist and will be for the indefinite future...