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Presidential spokesman Vitali Ignatenko scoffed at rumors that the security establishment was ruling his boss. His denial seemed borne out by Gorbachev's ultimatum to Lithuania on Thursday. What he called the public "demand" for Moscow to take over in the Baltics actually referred to ethnic Russian demonstrations in Vilnius and Riga orchestrated by Interfront, the anti- independence league of non-Baltic workers in the breakaway republics. Massed outside the parliament building in Vilnius on Tuesday, a wave of these workers broke down the front door before local national guardsmen pushed back the assault with fire hoses. The next...
...capital of Amman as a personal representative of President Mikhail Gorbachev. Ostensibly his main purpose in Iraq was to arrange for the departure of 5,174 Soviet citizens, presumably including some military advisers, whose continued presence has been an irritant to the U.S. But Gorbachev's press secretary Vitali Ignatenko, visiting the U.S., spoke to TIME about a possible Middle East conference in which "all the problems of the region could be resolved as a package, including the Palestinian problem." That is definitely not a message the U.S. wants Saddam to hear...
...other hand, Ignatenko said the dispatch of Soviet troops to join the international force confronting Iraq "is not ruled out." He and other Soviet spokesmen, however, have laid down tough conditions: there must be a U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force; the troops must be designated U.N. troops serving under a U.N. flag. Finally, says Ignatenko, "the commander of the U.N. troops should not necessarily be American." That would be an extremely difficult condition for the U.S. to grant, since it has contributed the great bulk of the international force, but putting Soviet troops under an American commander would...
...Ignatenko was especially intrigued by TIME's design, and consulted with graphics editor Nigel Holmes about sharpening the look of New Times. Ignatenko took particular interest in TIME's meticulous efforts to check facts. "With glasnost, Soviet journalists now have even more responsibility to be accurate," he explains. "Let's say we write something that is incorrect about one of the nationalities in the republics. That could cause a serious disturbance...
...Ignatenko spent four days in Miami with bureau chief James Carney, who speaks Russian. He met Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez, toured the building of the Miami Herald -- and squeezed in a few hours on the beach. We urged him to stay longer, but he had to fly home to Moscow to prepare for another trip. His destination: Beijing, where he arrives this week to plan coverage of the Sino- Soviet summit...