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Mikhail Gorbachev is determined to meet with George Bush sometime this summer, but Washington will continue to balk until the Soviet leader makes a few more arms-control concessions. While Kremlin officials have repeatedly predicted a June rendezvous, their U.S. counterparts have bridled at the idea because of unresolved issues. Negotiators still haven't decided how to verify a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and U.S. arms experts complain that Moscow is undermining the agreement on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) by removing some military units from the treaty's jurisdiction. Even the location of a potential summit...
When coal miners in Siberia's Kuzbass region walked off the job in early March, they vowed not to return until Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned. Last week, with Gorbachev still in office, the miners ended their strike, but only after he ceded Kremlin control of the coalpits to the Russian republic...
...years, conservatives in the debate over U.S. foreign policy knew who they were, largely because they knew whom they opposed: communists of all kinds and liberals who advocated accommodation with the Kremlin or its minions. Now that the cold war is over, an identity crisis has conservatives arguing among themselves with a ferocity they used to reserve for their adversaries on the left...
...Cabinet of Ministers formed last month by new Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, a former Minister of Finance, confirms the complex's growing role in Kremlin politics. Two of Pavlov's first deputies are alumni of defense industries. Of the 38 Cabinet ministries, at least 20 have a direct role in running the military-industrial complex. At last week's Central Committee plenum, a man in uniform was added to the Politburo. He is Major General Mikhail Surkov, head of the Communist Party organization inside the armed forces. At the same time, the party secretary in charge of military production, Oleg...
Critiques dominated the two-day Kremlin meeting of the Central Committee. Ivan Polozkov, head of the Russian republic's Communist Party, told Gorbachev, "I cannot understand how, after taking on such a large and responsible affair as perestroika, you have let the steering wheel slip from your hands." Admiral Gennadi Khvatov, commander of the Pacific fleet, intoned the old slogan, "The fatherland is in danger." Gorbachev, tired of the harangues, stormed to the rostrum and announced he would resign...