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Among some observers, the inevitable question is whether "the Kremlin on the Charles" is ready for a diehard free market economist...
Instead his opponents may have to deal with him for a while longer as President of Iraq. First came signals from Moscow that Saddam's former benefactors in the Kremlin are determined to save his skin, his face, even his job. Then came the news from Baghdad that Saddam's battered legions might get out of Kuwait one step ahead of a coalition offensive. Hence the note of frustration in Bush's voice Friday as he all but begged the Iraqi armed forces to "take matters into their own hands," thus doing what not even the smartest bomb...
...Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, met with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Moscow and was presented with what a Kremlin spokesperson described only as a "concrete plan" for settlement of the gulf crisis. Aziz then flew back to Iran, and from there he will head overland to Iraq today. The Soviets said they expected a swift response from Saddam...
...televised appeal had a particular aim: get voters to endorse the Kremlin's new Union Treaty binding the 15 Soviet republics together. Four republics -- Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia and Armenia -- have vowed not to take part in the scheduled March 17 referendum, while Latvia was leaning toward boycotting it. But Gorbachev's message also carried the kind of rally-round- the-flag overtones sounded by resurgent Communist hard-liners. Should he fail to re-create the Union with popular consent, he will be pressed by the reactionaries to resort to force -- or move aside...
After Gorbachev's accession to power, doctrinaire communism went into a six- year tailspin. But the turmoil of recent months has given the cause fresh life. Many of the party's new vanguard deny they want to turn back the clock, and yet the Kremlin has begun targeting for investigation prominent private businessman Artyom Tarasov, a self-made Moscow tycoon...