Word: kiev
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...reduce the two superpowers' nuclear arsenals, and a series of other agreements covering everything from agriculture to the arts. Bush agreed to try to provide Moscow with additional economic and technical aid. He also did his part to keep Gorbachev's restive empire from flying apart by traveling to Kiev to warn the Ukrainian legislature against any adventures in "suicidal nationalism...
...Bush motorcade arrived in Kiev, the streets were crowded with nationalist spectators, many of them waving the blue-and-yellow flag of the once independent Ukrainian state. But he made it clear that the U.S. would not intervene in the disputes between the republics and Gorbachev's central government. "We will not try to pick winners and losers in political competitions between republics, or between republics and the center," said the President. "((That)) is your business, not the business...
...Monstrous as the Moscow extravaganza was -- the TV networks couldn't resist sending their anchors, and CBS dispatched seven camera crews -- many news executives have concluded that they can no longer afford saturation coverage of all presidential trips. (The overall cost of just the press centers in Moscow and Kiev was $250,000.) The Associated Press sent 11 staff members on the trip, a third less than the number that covered the Reagan-Gorbachev summit...
...future looks from here. From Communists to formerly persecuted members of the nationalist Rukh (Movement) to founders of the new Party of Democratic Renaissance, from Ukrainian chauvinists to representatives of the ethnic Russians, who make up 20% of the population, the people I've met in Kiev seem every bit as determined as those in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius to break with Moscow. If they succeed, their country would be one of the largest in Europe. However, their rhetoric is quieter and their strategy less confrontational than the Balts...
Horyn and others across the political spectrum hope Bush will visit Kiev after the superpower summit in Moscow later this year. Kravchuk is due in the U.S. in the fall to address the United Nations. All the Ukrainians I spoke to, even anticommunists, want him to get his own invitation to the White House. What matters in Kiev is not his party affiliation but his position as the leader of a large and important European nation. That should matter to Bush as well...