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Germans acted out of a mixture of motives: simple generosity, gratitude to Gorbachev, even a touch of guilt -- German CARE, a descendant of the postwar American relief program, addressed its shipments to cities like Kiev and Smolensk that had suffered most from Hitler's aggression during World War II. They also are worried that unless the food crisis is brought under control, Western Europe will face a flood of Soviet refugees. Nations along the Soviet border from Scandinavia to Czechoslovakia are bracing for that possibility. Fearing instability, Poland last week even decided to beef up its troop deployments along...
...happened, more people than the usual unending queues of demoralized shoppers took to the streets last week -- from Ukrainian-independen ce campaigners in Kiev to a procession behind a Russian Orthodox priest blessing Moscow's new commodities exchange, to U.S. film star and fitness diva Jane Fonda leading a troop of Soviet women on an athletic loop around the Kremlin. Yet as loudspeakers blared "Hoorah, hoorah!" for Fonda outside the old czarist citadel, inside no outright cheers greeted Gorbachev's shape-up course. Legislators adopted the program by a vote of 333 to 12 (with 34 abstentions) but remained unsure...
...piece of bread. We must provide that bread. Through the existing system it is not possible to acquire food on time and in the quantity needed. Moscow can't satisfy the needs of its own population, yet it is better off than other cities of the Soviet Union. Kiev, for example, has always been a mirror that reflected the state of agricultural production. Now this mirror shows us a very unattractive image...
Anyone for a game of musical chairs? Shortly after Vladimir Ivashko, 58, was elected chairman of the Ukrainian parliament last month, he stepped down as first secretary of the republic's Communist Party. Then, two weeks ago, he abruptly resigned from his post in Kiev and won the key job of deputy to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
Ivashko has prospered by carefully treading the centrist path and, like Gorbachev, making the best of the inevitable. Interviewed in his Kiev office shortly before he took up his new job, Ivashko insisted that "the Ukrainian people are masters of their own land." But complete separation from the union, he said, was "not politically, economically, socially or culturally feasible" for the Ukraine...