Word: kremlin
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Amid the turmoil the Soviet government has finally begun to move. The Kremlin has reorganized a number of departments into the new State Committee for the Protection of the Environment, Goskompriroda, and given it an impressive range of powers. "In this restructuring," said Nicholas Robinson, a Pace University professor and an expert on the Soviet environment, "the Communist Party Central Committee has decided that, after disarmament, environmental protection is the No. 1 world issue." An aggressive cleanup program has already begun. Projects are being re-evaluated in light of their environmental impact. Fines have been levied on some polluters...
...played out. The P.L.O. leader had the recalcitrant radicals in his organization pulling him back from the edge. Pushing him forward were Egypt and Jordan, as well as the Soviet Union, which "landed on Arafat like a ton of bricks," according to a Washington source. Reversing past policy, the Kremlin urged Arafat to seek talks with the U.S. and acknowledge Israel...
...trials of covering the other superpower are nothing new to Kohan, a longtime student of the Gorbachev phenomenon. A fluent speaker of Russian who studied for four months at Leningrad University in 1974, Kohan began tracking the Kremlin's rising star after joining TIME as a reporter-researcher in 1975. As an associate editor in the World section, he wrote the March 1985 cover story on Gorbachev's appointment to the top job of General Secretary. A week later Kohan left New York City to report from TIME's Bonn bureau, where Gorbachev's new policies held a constant fascination...
Since taking over the Moscow bureau last June, Kohan has found that Gorby watching is a seven-day-a-week, round-the-clock job. The General Secretary's four-car Moscow motorcade often whisks past Kohan's Kutuzovsky Prospect apartment en route to the Kremlin. But keeping an eye on Gorbachev is as exciting as it is demanding. Says Kohan: "There have been times during the past hectic months of political activity when I have wondered if Gorbachev has not reached a dead end. Then, suddenly, he will pull off a surprise, and everything will move forward again...
...devastation. Medical supplies, rescue equipment and trained search teams from France, West Germany, Britain, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Poland were flown + into the Soviet Union, and more aid was offered by countries from Latin America to the Far East. Perhaps the most striking symbol of change was the Kremlin's formal request for American help. Washington responded immediately with offers of medicine and medical equipment, doctors and trained rescue teams, the first time that large-scale U.S. assistance had been given to the Soviet Union since the end of World War II. Over the weekend the first U.S. cargo plane arrived...