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...Georgia's most respected writers, Gamsakhurdia seemed to have perfect credentials for his job. But he was too haunted by his own past persecution by the KGB and by the need to settle old scores to be a truly democratic leader. Obsessed with conspiracies involving "agents of the Kremlin," the President closed down liberal newspapers and barred critics from television. During a wave of protest against his authoritarian rule last autumn, police loyal to him fired on demonstrators, and he jailed opposition leaders. He was intent on extending his power into the provinces by appointing presidential prefects, but he showed...
...energy to starting a movement of international support for building a democratic Georgia." Shevardnadze would certainly lend any post-Gamsakhurdia leadership the kind of authority it needs in the West. But the veteran diplomat suffers from one major handicap: he may be too closely identified with the Kremlin to suit his intensely nationalistic compatriots...
...Russian President pre-empted some of the inheritance debate. Even before the U.S.S.R. went out of existence, he began to seize for his republic such Soviet structures as the Kremlin, the presidential office and staff, the Foreign Ministry and its embassies abroad, the security forces, the Communist Party's Central Committee headquarters and banks and foreign currency accounts...
...large extent, though not in the sense he implied, his firmly held principles did lead to his departure from the Kremlin. As a reformer, Gorbachev was a phenomenon, an almost inexplicable product of the communist establishment who rose to its pinnacle. But he was never able to rise above himself, his socialist faith and his dedication to the Union -- always the Union -- of Soviet Socialist Republics. His ability to go only so far, and no further, made it inevitable that he would be the initiator, not the final arbiter, of democratic change in the former Soviet empire. Said the daily...
Boris Yeltsin, the comeback kid of Russian politics, deftly toppled the Kremlin and inherited the nuclear button . . . The Teamsters said goodbye to the Mafia. Against all odds, the most corrupt U.S. labor union elected an underdog reformer as president -- Watch out, wiseguys . . . Sam Skinner moved up from Transportation Secretary to displace arrogant-to-the-end John Sununu. Skinner was just what George Bush needed -- a crisis manager who flies coach class . . . Wal-Mart isn't just a discount store anymore. Sam Walton's brainchild surpassed Sears in 1991 as the largest U.S. retailer . . . Nirvana found its place in alternative-rock...