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While Mikhail Gorbachev blasted "communist fundamentalists" from his Kremlin pulpit last week, one of his main targets, Alexei Sergeyev, sat silently in the audience of Central Committee members, nursing a few grievances of his own. As the founder of the hard-line Communist Initiative movement, Sergeyev concluded that what Gorbachev said about "breaking out of the circle of dogmatic concepts" confirmed his worst suspicions. "In the past, Gorbachev has always disguised his true views," said Sergeyev. "This time, he was almost honest. His speech left me in no doubt that he is not a communist. If you were to change...
...means." But hard-liners like Sergeyev suspect the President will betray them. They contend that Gorbachev wants the issue to be decided by the Committee for Constitutional Compliance, which rules on the constitutionality of laws, rather than veto the decree himself and risk alienating Yeltsin. No matter what the Kremlin does, the Russians are bound to go ahead with plans to kick party functionaries out of factories...
...scene will be familiar and, partly for just that reason, comforting. The two Presidents will take their seats at a table in the St. Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace and sign a treaty concluding a nine-year negotiation known as the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Television will broadcast the ceremony around the world. A sense of deja vu will sweep through the global village. The predecessors of these two men went through much the same ritual at numerous earlier summits. Here, once again, are the leaders of the "superpowers," as we've long called them, smiling, shaking hands...
...because what is happening inside the U.S.S.R. these days is so unfamiliar, this week's signing will have about it an air not just of old business but also of anachronism. When START began in 1982, the Kremlin was under the control of Leonid Brezhnev, whose armies occupied Afghanistan as well as Eastern Europe. The tenant in the White House was Ronald Reagan, who spoke for much of the world in denouncing the U.S.S.R. as an "evil empire," led by men who "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." The No. 1 task...
Third World dictatorships had their First or Second World patrons to help maintain borders and thwart secession. Only as long as the Kremlin armed Ethiopia was Mengistu Haile Mariam able to cling to Eritrea and his own position in Addis Ababa...