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...bidding. They were determined to keep Vietnam from ever again being under the control of a foreign power. They saw the Americans as successors to French and Chinese imperialists. That image of the G.I. served Ho better than America's image of the V.C. as an agent of the Kremlin served Kennedy and his three successors...
When he was in the Kremlin, he began the effort to transform a dictatorship into a civil society and "a law-based state." The current hearings are intended as a continuation of that process. If Gorbachev were to have his day in court and rebut the hard-liners, it might help the liberal justices block the reactionaries and keep alive his own proudest legacy...
Debates still rage in Moscow about whether hard-liners might try another coup to restore something like the old communist regime. But the real question is, Why should they bother? Already, conservatives -- in a post-Soviet context, those who resist change in the old Kremlin ways -- have been staging a kind of "creeping coup." They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government...
Cambridge is not a liberal city. You may think it is, with its pro-choice, pro-environment leaders, its stringent recycling laws and its strong support for civil rights and equality among all segments of the population. The "Kremlin on the Charles" is one of the only cities in America with a "peace commission...
...people," he says. "I was motivated by fears of a widespread civil war." After traveling the globe to settle other nations' conflicts, the veteran peacemaker could hardly ignore the plight of his own people. And many of the same Georgians who accused Shevardnadze of being a Kremlin agent less than a year ago now believe he is the only man who can prevent their country from splitting apart. As a close adviser puts it, "He is a hostage of circumstances...