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Finally realizing her indiscretion, she clammed up like Clarence Thomas faced with a question about Roe. Can't tell you that, sir; can't even estimate. Further queries got the same kind of neither-confirm-nor-deny blather one usually associates with Kremlin cronies asked questions about Finland...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: The Last Bastion of Bolshevism | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

Ever the salesman, Limbaugh has created brand names for political groups. Do-gooder liberals are "compassion fascists," and "commie libs" are pretty much anyone to the left of David Duke. San Francisco is "the West Coast branch of the Kremlin." Limbaugh, a rock-ribbed skeptic, believes that reports of the death of Soviet communism have been greatly exaggerated. A "Gorbasm" is the sound people make when hailing Mikhail Gorbachev -- "and of course every Gorbasm is fake." Listeners who agree with Rush shout "Mega-dittos" as a greeting. Those who don't agree, he says, endanger his concept of "safe talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man. A Legend. A What!? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

During a period of spectacular and almost entirely happy endings -- the Kremlin's capitulation in its global rivalry with the U.S., the emancipation of Eastern Europe, the dismantling of the last vestiges of the Stalinist police state and the retirement without honor of the mother of all Communist Parties -- it has been sufficient for Bush to lead the decorous applause. But now the situation is changing in ways that no longer play to his strengths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

Moscow's short, hot summer is threatening to bring an early autumn chill to Kabul. Facing economic and political collapse at home, the Kremlin is reviewing its largesse abroad. Boris Yeltsin openly opposes continuing aid to Afghan President Najibullah, and Mikhail Gorbachev, who discovered several proponents of continued support among those who plotted to overthrow him, is likely soon to pull the plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...hastily improvised vision of a loosely knit union of sovereign states to wary Soviet legislators, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin tried to sell an equally skeptical audience on the viability of their new enterprise. In an extraordinary live broadcast orchestrated by ABC television that linked U.S. viewers with the Kremlin's St. George's Hall, the Soviet and Russian presidents sought to allay American fears that there would be any backsliding toward communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Knell of the Union? | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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