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POLITICAL ANALYSTS in the last two months have been busy writing Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's obituary. They speak of him as a man who is ready to be buried in the Kremlin wall. Gorbachev is eulogized for his achievements, as if he long ago played all his cards...
...Hersh puts it, that the material was "sanitized" so that any damage to the U.S. would be lessened. But, says Hersh, some of it "was directly provided to Yevgeny M. Primakov, the Soviet Foreign Ministry's specialist on the Middle East ((now chief of foreign intelligence for the Kremlin)), who met publicly and privately with Shamir...
...strategists. They started having second thoughts about whether sending local Soviet missile crews packing was a good idea after all. Nuclear storage facilities and launch sites suddenly looked less like imperial outposts and more like valuable assets that might come in handy as the republics bargain with the Kremlin over the terms of confederation or secession: You want your ICBMs back? O.K., but first you'll have to agree to the following 87 points in our declaration of independence...
...implications of Bush's proposals are far more onerous for the U.S.S.R. In his own polite and statesmanlike way, he was all but dictating to the Kremlin how it should restructure its nuclear forces so as to diminish even further the threat they pose to the rest of the world...
Gorbachev's assessment was not much different. On Friday morning the Kremlin leader received a letter from the White House outlining the proposals. He talked them over with top advisers, including arms-control negotiator Victor Karpov and Defense Minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, and then took a phone call from Bush -- all before the President went on TV. Sounding a bit incredulous, Gorbachev asked whether some of the American moves really were unilateral rather than conditioned on a Soviet response; Bush assured him they were. That extensive consultation was itself a welcome illustration of the current ; civility in U.S.-Soviet relations...