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...thing can be said for Mikhail Gorbachev: he certainly has a strong survival instinct. After committing enough errors of judgment to have wrecked the careers of a dozen or so Western politicians, he was back on the job at the Kremlin last week, chastened, humiliated, but as determined as ever to hold on to his powers as President of the Soviet Union. Never mind that the Communist Party was no more, the central government dissolved, the security services and armed forces undergoing a painful purge and the Soviet parliament in total disarray. The failed putsch may have left a gaping...
...coup has taken some of the luster off the Kremlin's Nobel Peace laureate in the eyes of the outside world, but Gorbachev still remains the one Soviet politician with whom international leaders feel comfortable doing business. In diplomacy the Yeltsin factor looms large. His heroic stand against the conspirators won him applause abroad, but foreign diplomats are less enthusiastic about what they have seen of the Russian president since the putsch was crushed. Gorbachev's prestige abroad will prove to be important capital in the bank, especially now that his homeland is entering a new era of absorption with...
...national interests. The international community may be lining up to grant recognition to the three Baltic republics; how it will deal with seven more candidates clamoring for full admission into the club is another matter. For the interim, foreign visitors will still want to stop first at the Kremlin to catch the familiar voice of Gorbachev above the babble...
Throughout Soviet history, Kremlin leaders have taken special care to prevent the army from interfering in the nation's internal politics. Yet the new order being established by Mikhail Gorbachev was not the kind that soldiers were accustomed to living with. Pulled out of Afghanistan, shown the door in Eastern Europe, beset by shrinking defense outlays, low pay and ethnic tensions, the army smarted under the changes sweeping the U.S.S.R. For the plotters of the coup, such discontent seemed to make the military a logical -- if reluctant -- ally. Its armed might made it an essential...
...days after his return to Moscow, Gorbachev had seemed out of touch with events. Shocked by his temporary ouster and perhaps distracted by his wife Raisa's poor health, he retreated into the safety of bureaucratic routine. He closed himself away in the Kremlin and used television speeches and a press conference to address his rescuers. Only well down his list did he mention Yeltsin among those to be thanked. The Russian crowds were not impressed. Just beyond the Kremlin wall in Red Square, a sea of marching, flag-waving demonstrators chanted "Yel-tsin! Yel-tsin!" and shouted for Gorbachev...