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...snow shower dusted their faces, the supporters of change in the Soviet Union thronged Moscow's streets to deliver a pungent political message, savoring the act of public assembly in the face of Mikhail Gorbachev's order forbidding rallies, and then tramped peacefully home. For what, then, had the Kremlin assembled an enormous security force -- to protect itself against its own people...
...national referendum on the Soviet Union's future, the big winner was his archrival, Boris Yeltsin. At Yeltsin's urging, voters in the Russian Republic approved the idea of a popularly elected President. Yeltsin plans to seek that post, which is likely to intensify his confrontation with the Kremlin. And at the moment he would be the odds-on favorite to win it; leaders of a fast- growing miners' strike have already pledged their support...
...expected to do everything they can to derail Yeltsin's presidential campaign. Even without a popular mandate as leader of Russia, Yeltsin has been challenge enough in Gorbachev's eyes. As the elected head of government in the largest, wealthiest republic, he would be a Kremlin nightmare...
...last month, Yeltsin believed he was summoning destiny to his side, helping allow Soviet citizens to make their own choices about their country's future. Gorbachev deserves the credit for setting the Soviet Union free from its repressive past, but Yeltsin may yet get the credit for breaking the Kremlin's present-day grip on the union itself...
Though Soviet weapons were the duds of the gulf war, the Kremlin is also in the market to make arms sales. During a visit to Moscow last week, British Prime Minister John Major appealed to Mikhail Gorbachev for his cooperation. The Soviet leader is reported to have intimated that he would agree to an embargo against Iraq only for as long as Saddam remained in power. That may be the best anyone can hope for. Every major war in the Middle East has been followed by a major escalation in the regional arms race. This time, too, visions...