Word: kremlinologist
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...keyed. His master briefing book is augmented by two dozen concise background memos, each bound in black vinyl and covering a specific aspect of U.S.S.R. affairs ("Russia's Place in the World: the View from Moscow," "Soviet and Russian Psychology: Some Common Traits"). Aides under Chief White House Kremlinologist John Matlock Jr. are preparing several videotapes, mostly profiling key Soviet participants, including a lengthy one of Gorbachev in public appearances. Although Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko was invited to a presidential lunch recently, one-on-one sit-downs between Reagan and pedagogic experts have largely been avoided. Says one aide...
Figuring outNorth Korea's leadershipcould make even a Kremlinologist's head spin, but it looks as though Kim Jong Il -- son of the late PresidentKim Il Sung-- may finally be running the show. Today, on the eve of the anniversary of elder Kim's death, North Korean television showed the younger Kim seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea...
...well-placed Moscow lawyer, says that the conservatives are milking the messy political situation and that Gorbachev was actually backed into going to Lithuania when, on a suggestion from opposition leader Boris Yeltsin, the Central Committee voted for Gorbachev to head the delegation. In Washington, however, a top Kremlinologist cautions that any talk of Gorbachev's political demise is premature. As yet, he observes, no plausible successor has emerged to take his place, and Gorbachev's opposition within the Politburo is fragmented...
...more than one place. In Moscow a Western diplomat remarked, "There are a lot of indications that Gorbachev is losing his grip." In New York City speculation swirled in the corridors of the United Nations. "Is it possible that Gorbachev has reached the crucible?" asked a West German Kremlinologist. "Yes it is." Even a senior Soviet diplomat admitted, "The worst could happen, and it could come soon." Yet for all the jittery expressions of concern, officials in Bonn, Paris and London roundly dismissed any talk of burying Gorbachev prematurely. In Washington officials contended that the rumors had been fanned...
...someone to fear. There was reason to be wary of him: Neznansky asserts that when Gorbachev discovered that some fellow students had parents who were in political disgrace, he called for their expulsion from the Komsomol and perhaps from the university as well. Michel Tatu, a prominent French Kremlinologist and author of a forthcoming biography of Gorbachev, is convinced that he joined in the vicious anti-Semitic rhetoric of Stalin's last purge, launched just before the dictator's death in early 1953. Mlynar does not deny that, but he insists that Gorbachev steered clear of any individual persecutions...